This book is an analyzed translation of the beginning of the sixth chapter in Jam-yang-zhay-pa Ngag-wang-tsön-drü’s Decisive Analysis of (Chandrakirti’s) “Supplement to (Nāgārjuna’s) ‘Treatise on the Middle’”: Treasury of Scripture and Reasoning, Thoroughly Illuminating the Profound Meaning [of Emptiness], Entrance for the Fortunate, also called Decisive Analysis of the Middle and Great Exposition of the Middle. A textbook for the study of the Middle Way philosophy of liberation in the Gomang College of Drepung Monastery, it has been in continuous use since its publication in 1695.

The sections translated here treat issues raised in the context of the first seven stanzas of Chandrakirti’s treatment of the sixth bodhisattva ground, the Manifest.

The book includes Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s commentary on these stanzas of Chandrakirti’s Supplement to (Nāgārjuna’s) “Treatise on the Middle” as well as the corresponding sections of Tsong-kha-pa’s Illumination of the Thought.