The text translated here is from the fourth section
of Jam-yang-zhay-pa Ngag-wang-tsön-drü’s Great Exposition of the Interpretable and the Definitive, more formally called Decisive Analysis of (Tsong-kha-pa’s) “Differentiating the Interpretable and the Definitive”: Storehouse of White Vaiḍūrya of Scripture and Reasoning Free from Mistake, Fulfilling the Hopes of the Fortunate, a commentary on Tsong-kha-pa Lo-sang-drag-pa’s The Essence of Eloquence. Published in 1686, the Great Exposition of the Interpretable and the Definitive is used at Go-mang Monastic College and related institutions
throughout Inner Asia as a textbook for the study of interpretation of scripture.
Although The Essence of Eloquence is considered to be Tsong-kha-pa’s most difficult treatise, Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s pene-
trating analysis clarifies his discussion of the Sūtra Unraveling the Thought on the Mind-Only School. Through logical de-
bates and prose exposition, Jam-yang-zhay-pa explores Tsong-kha-pa’s analysis of a Bodhisattva’s question to Buddha about an apparent contradiction in Buddha’s sutras and then Buddha’s reply to that question.