This is the fifth of eight volumes presenting Tibetan views on the controversy that arose in Buddhist India over how to refute production from self.
The controversy revolves around the opening phrase, “Not from self,” of the first stanza of the first chapter of Nāgārjuna’s Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Called “Wisdom”:

Not from self, not from others,
Not from both, not causelessly
Do any things
Ever arise anywhere.

Nāgārjuna’s principal Indian commentators explain the refutation of production from self in varying detail, the differences engendering the split between what came to be called the Autonomy School and the Consequence School.
Buddhapālita’s commentary on the refutation of production from self provoked Bhāvaviveka into incisive criticism and into a demonstration of his own preferred style of commentary. As explained in the second volume in this series, Chandrakīrti defended Buddhapālita, and in the third volume, Chandrakīrti attacked Bhāvaviveka’s own method for refuting production from self. This turns into a discussion of compatibly appearing
subjects, which is seen as the prime, but not only, source showing that Bhāvaviveka accepts that phenomena are established by way of their own character.
Tsong-kha-pa’s focus here in the Great Exposition of Special Insight is on the fascinating topic of compatible appearance for
ever-deepening reflections about how phenomena seem and thereby the nature of the reality behind appearances. His analysis is embedded with two color-coded commentaries by Jam-yang-zhay-pa and Dra-ti Ge-she Rin-chen-dön-drub to enhance its accessibility.
Included is a separate translation of Tsong-kha-pa’s text.