List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. The Topic of the Twenty Saṃgha
Methodological Considerations
Tsong kha pa’s Hermeneutical Strategy
Hermeneutical Strategies in Approaching the Twenty Saṃgha
2. Tsong kha pa and the Abhisamayālamkāra Commentarial Tradition
Indian Predecessors in the Abhisamayālamkāra Tradition
Tsong kha pa’s Tibetan Predecessors in the Abhisamayālamkāra Tradition
The Abhisamayālamkāra and Twenty Saṃgha in Tsong kha pa’s Life and Works
Summary
3. Contextual and Doctrinal Presumptions
Locating the Twenty Saṃgha in the Abhisamayālamkāra
Saṃgha in Early Buddhism and in the Abhisamayālamkāra
Avaivartika-Saṃgha as Refuge in the Abhisamayālamkāra
Path and Yogic Systems of the Abhisamayālamkāra
Cosmological Factors
Summary
4. Analysis of the Twenty Saṃgha
An Introduction to the Topic from the Root Texts
The Allegorical Saṃgha of Śrāvakas
5. An Assembly of Irreversible Bodhisattvas
The Actual Saṃgha of Bodhisattvas
Enumerating Bodhisattvas in the Prajñāpāramitā
Relationship between the Actual Saṃgha and the Allegorical Saṃgha
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
References
Index