This book is an annotated translation of the beginning section in the sixth chapter on the two truths in Jam-yang-zhay-pa Ngag-wang-tsön-drü’s Decisive Analysis of (Chandrakīrti’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.

Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s initial section on the two truths treats the basis of the division into the two truths, the division into the two truths, whether the two truths are one or different, and the individual entities of the two truths. Readers interested in Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s Great Exposition of the Middle may wish to consult in this series:

• Title, Translators’ Obeisance, and How Hearers and Solitary Realizers are Born from Buddhas, by Jules Levinson;
• Meaning of “The Manifest,” Vessels for the Teaching of Emptiness, Nāgārjuna’s Lives, and Ten Samenesses, by Craig Preston;
• The Opposite of Emptiness in the Middle Way Autonomy School, by Jongbok Yi; and
• The Opposite of Emptiness in the Middle Way Consequence School, by Jongbok Yi.