A Great Books Translation Project Publication
The Hidden Teaching of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras:
Jam-yang-shay-pa's Seventy Topics and Kon-chog-jig-may-wang-po's Supplement by Jeffrey Hopkins and Jongbok Yi
This 750 page book contains:
- the first translation of Jam-yang-shay-pa's Eloquent Presentation of the Eight Categories and Seventy Topics: Sacred Word of Guru Ajita
- the first translation of Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s commentary on the 203 stanzas that Jam-yang-shay-pa cites out of the 274 stanzas in Maitreya's Ornament for the Clear Realizations, from his Explanation of the Treatise "Ornament for the Clear Realizations" From the Approach of the Meaning of the Words: The Sacred Word of Maitreyanātha
- the Tibetan texts of the above two items interspersed with the translations
- the first translation of Kon-chog-jig-may-wang-po's treatment of the thirty-first of the Seventy Topics, the 173 aspects involved in the complete training in all aspects, from his Thorough Expression of the Natures of the One Hundred Seventy-Three Aspects of the Three Exalted Knowers: White Lotus Vine of Eloquence
- annotations drawn from eight Tibetan and Mongolian authors representing several Ge-lug-pa monasteries and colleges
- oral commentary from Dan-ma-lo-cho: Ge-she of the Lo-sel-ling College, Abbot Emeritus of Nam-gyal College, and Great Assembly Hall Tulku
- annotations comparing the two basic editions of Jam-yang-shay-pa’s text as well as six editions based on one of them; a critical edition will be published separately online and will be available freely later
