This book contains:

• the first translation of Jam-yang-zhay-pa's Eloquent Presentation of the Eight Categories and Seventy Topics: Sacred Word of Guru Ajita
• the first translation of Ngag-wang-pal-dan’s commentary on the 203 stanzas that Jam-yang-zhay-pa cites out of the 274 stanzas in Maitreya's Ornament for the Clear Realizations, from his Explanation of the Treatise "Ornament for the Clear Reali­zations" From the Approach of the Meaning of the Words: The Sacred Word of Maitreyanā­tha
• the Tibetan texts of the above two items interspersed with the translations
• the first translation of Kon-chog-jig-may-wang-po's treatment of the thirty-first of the Seventy Topics, the 173 aspects involved in the complete training in all aspects, from his Thorough Expression of the Natures of the One Hundred Seventy-Three Aspects of the Three Exalted Knowers: White Lotus Vine of Eloquence
• annotations drawn from eight Tibetan and Mongolian authors representing several Ge-lug-pa monasteries and colleges
• oral commentary from Dan-ma-lo-cho: Ge-she of the Lo-sel-ling College, Abbot Emeritus of Nam-gyal College, and Great Assembly Hall Tulku
• annotations comparing the two basic editions of Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s text as well as six editions based on one of them; a critical edition will be published separately online and will be available later