| Preface | xi |
| Introduction | xiii |
| CHAPTER ONE. RAVANA, LORD OF LANKA, ASKS FOR INSTRUCTION | 3 | (1)*
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| CHAPTER TWO. COLLECTION OF ALL THE DHARMAS | 22 | (22)
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| | § I. | Mahāmati Praises the Buddha with Verses | 22 | (22)
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| § II. | Mahāmati's "One Hundred and Eight Questions" | 23 | (23)
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| § III. | "The One Hundred and Eight Negations" | 31 | (34)
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| § IV. | Concerning the Vijñānas | 33 | (37)
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| § V. | Seven Kinds of Self-nature (svabhāva) | 35 | (39)
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| § VI. | Seven Kinds of First Principle (paramārtha), and the Philosophers' Wrong Views regarding the Mind Rejected | 35 | (39)
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| § VII. | Erroneous Views held by Some Brahmans and Śramanas Concerning Causation, Continuation, etc.; The Buddhist Views Concerning Such Subjects as Alayavijñāna, Nirvana, Mind-only, etc.; Attainments of the Bodhisattva | 36 | (40)
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| § VIII. | The Bodhisattva's Discipling himself in Self-realisation | 39 | (43)
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| § IX. | The Evolution and Function of the Vijñānas; The Spiritual Discipline of the Bodhisattva; Verses on the Alaya-ocean and Vijñāna-waves | 39 | (43)
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| § X. | The Bodhisattva is to Understand the Signification of Mind-only | 44 | (49)
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| § XI(a). | The Three Aspects of Noble Wisdom (āryajñāna) | 44 | (49)
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| § XI(b). | The Attainment of the Tathāgatakāya | 45 | (50)
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| § XII. | Logic on the Hare's Horns | 46 | (51)
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| § XIII. | Verses on the Alayavijñāna and Mind-only | 49 | (54)
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| § XIV. | Purification of the Outflows, Instantaneous and Gradual | 49 | (55)
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| § XV. | Nishyanda-Buddha, Dharmatā-Buddha, and Nirmāṇa-Buddha | 51 | (56)
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| § XVI. | The Śrāvaka's Realisation and Attachment to the Notion of Self-nature | 52 | (58)
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| § XVII. | The Eternal-Unthinkable | 53 | (59)
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| § XVIII. | Nirvana and Alayavijñāna | 55 | (61)
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| § XIX. | All Things are Unborn | 55 | (62)
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| § XX. | The Five Classes of Spiritual Insight | 56 | (63)
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| § XXI. | Verses on the Triple Vehicle | 58 | (65)
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| § XXII. | Two Classes of the Icchantika | 58 | (65)
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| § XXIII. | The Three Forms of Svabhāva | 59 | (67)
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| § XXIV. | The Twofold Egolessness (nairātmyadvaya-lakshaṇa) | 60 | (68)
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| § XXV. | Assertion and Refutation (samāropāpavāda) | 62 | (70)
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| § XXVI. | The Bodhisattva Assumes Various Personalities | 64 | (72)
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| § XXVII. | On Emptiness (śūnyatā), No-birth, and Non-duality | 65 | (73)
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| § XXVIII. | The Tathagata-Garbha and the Ego-soul | 68 | (77)
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| § XXIX. | A Verse on the Philosophers' Discriminations | 70 | (79)
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| § XXX. | The Four Things Needed for the Constitution of Bodhisattvahood | 70 | (79)
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| § XXXI. | On Causation (Six Kinds), and the Rise of Existence | 72 | (82)
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| § XXXII. | Four Forms of Word-discrimination | 75 | (85)
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| § XXXIII. | On Word and Discrimination and the Highest Reality | 76 | (86)
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| § XXXIV. | Verses on Reality and its Representations | 77 | (88)
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| § XXXV. | Mind-only, Multitudinousness, and Analogies, with an Interpolation on the Dualistic Notion of Existence | 78 | (88)
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| § XXXVI. | The Teaching (dharmadeśanā) of the Tathagatas | 84 | (96)
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| § XXXVII. | Four Kinds of Dhyāna | 85 | (97)
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| § XXXVIII. | On Nirvana | 86 | (98)
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| § XXXIX. | Two Characteristics of Self-nature | 87 | (99)
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| § XL. | Two Kinds of the Buddha's Sustaining Power (adhishṭhāna) | 87 | (100)
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| § XLI. | On the Chain of Causation (pratityasamutpāda) | 90 | (103)
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| § XLII. | Words (abhilāpa) and Realities (bhāva) | 91 | (104)
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| § XLIII. | On Eternality of Sound (nityaśabda), the Nature of Error (bhrānta), and Perversion (viparyāsa) | 92 | (106)
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| § XLIV. | On the Nature of Māyā | 95 | (109)
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| § XLV. | That All Things are Unborn | 96 | (110)
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| § XLVI. | On Name, Sentence, Syllable, and Their Meaning | 97 | (112)
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| § XLVII. | On Inexplicable Statements (vyakṛitānī) | 98 | (114)
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| § XLVIII. | All Things are and are not (Verses on Four Forms of Explanation) | 99 | (115)
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| § XLIX. | On the Śrāvakas, Srotaāpanna, Sakṛidāgāmin, Anāgāmin, and Arhat; on the Three Knots (saṁyojāni) | 100 | (116)
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| § L. | The Intellect (buddhi), Examining and Discrimnating | 105 | (122)
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| § LI. | The Elements, Primary and Secondary | 106 | (123)
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| § LII. | The Five Skandhas | 107 | (124)
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| § LIII. | Four Kinds of Nirvana and the Eight Vijñānas | 108 | (126)
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| § LIV. | The False Imagination Regarding Twelve Subjects | 110 | (127)
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| § LV. | Verses on the Citta, Parikalpita, Paratantra, and Parinishpanna | 112 | (130)
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| § LVI. | The One Vehicle and the Triple Vehicle | 114 | (133)
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| CHAPTER THREE. ON IMPERMANENCY | 118 | (136)
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| § LVII. | Three Forms of the Will-body (manomayakāya) | 118 | (136)
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| § LVIII. | The Five Immediacies (pañcānantaryāṇi); Desire as Mother and Ignorance as Father | 120 | (138)
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| § LIX. | The Buddha-nature (buddhatā) | 122 | (140)
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| § LX. | The Identity (samatā) of Buddhahood and its Four Aspects | 122 | (141)
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| § LXI. | Not a Word Uttered by the Buddha; Self-realisation and an Eternally-abiding Reality | 123 | (142)
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| § LXII. | On Being and Non-Being; Realism and Nihilism | 125 | (144)
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| § LXIII. | Realisation and Word-teaching | 127 | (147)
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| § LXIV. | Discrimination, an External World, Dualism, and Attachment | 129 | (149)
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| § LXV. | The Relation between Words (ruta) and Meaning (artha) | 133 | (154)
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| § LXVI. | On Knowledge, Absolute (jñāna) and Relative (vijñāna) | 135 | (156)
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| § LXVII. | Nine Transformations (pariṇāma) | 137 | (158)
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| § LXVIII. | The Deep-seated Attachment to Existence | 138 | (160)
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| § LXIX. | Self-nature, Reality, Imagination, Truth of Solitude, etc | 141 | (163)
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| § LXX. | The Thesis of No-birth | 144 | (166)
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| § LXXI. | True Knowledge and Ignorance | 146 | (169)
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| § LXXII. | Self-realisation and the Discoursing on it | 148 | (171)
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| § LXXIII. | On the Lokāyatika | 149 | (173)
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| § LXXIV. | Various Views of Nirvana | 157 | (182)
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| § LXXV. | Is Tathagatahood Something Made? Its Relation to the Skandhas, to Emancipation, to Knowledge | 161 | (187)
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| § LXXVI. | The Tathagata Variously Designated; Relation Between Words and Meaning; Not a Word Uttered by the Buddha | 164 | (191)
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| § LXXVII. | Causation, No-birth, Self-mind, Nirvana | 170 | (197)
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| § LXXVIII. | Verses on No-birth and Causation | 172 | (200)
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| § LXXIX. | Various Views of Impermanency | 176 | (204)
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| CHAPTER FOUR. ON INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING | 182 | (211)
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| § LXXX. | Perfect Tranquillisation Attained by Śrāvakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas; Stages of Bodhisattvahood | 182 | (211)
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| CHAPTER FIVE. ON THE DEDUCTION OF THE PERMANENCY OF TATHAGATAHOOD | 187 | (217)
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| § LXXXI. | Permanency of Tathagatahood | 187 | (217)
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| CHAPTER SIX. ON MOMENTARINESS | 190 | (220)
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| § LXXXII. | The Tathāgata-garbha and the Alayavijñāna | 190 | (220)
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| § LXXXIII. | The Five Dharmas, and Their Relation to the Three Svabhāvas | 193 | (224)
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| § LXXXIV. | The Five Dharmas | 197 | (228)
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| § LXXXV. | Tathagata and Sands of the Gangā | 198 | (229)
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| § LXXXVI. | Momentariness; the Eight Vijñānas | 202 | (234)
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| § LXXXVII. | Three Kinds of the Pāramitās | 204 | (236)
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| § LXXXVIII. | Views on Momentariness; Discrimination | 206 | (238)
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| CHAPTER SEVEN. ON TRANSFORMATION | 207 | (240)
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| § LXXXIX. | On Transformation | 207 | (240)
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| CHAPTER EIGHT. ON MEAT-EATING | 211 | (244)
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| CHAPTER NINE. THE DHĀRANĪS | 223 | (260)
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| SAGĀTHAKAM | 226 | (264)
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| APPENDIX | 297 |