This book is an annotated translation of the third section of Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s Illuminating a Little the Presentation of Signs and Reasonings: Beautiful Golden Garland of Eloquence, a textbook studied by beginners at the Gomang College of Drepung Monastery and at Labrang Tra-shi-khyil and their affiliated institutions throughout Inner Asia.

Correct signs are of three types, correct effect, nature, and nonobservation signs, which aid, respectively, in understanding the important topics of cause and effect, impermanence, and emptiness.

In this section of his work, Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s focus is on correct effect signs, introducing the student to a number of debate topics that bring to light various aspects of the topic, such as the relationship between the predicate and the sign, and whether the predicate is a positive or a negative phenomenon.