In memoriam, Ji Xianlin (6. August 1911 – 11. Juli 2009) 5-9 The silent saṃgha: Some observations on mute sheep monks 11-38 Ignorance, epistemology and soteriology – Part I 39-83 Eating letters in the Tibetan treasure tradition 85-113 “This inferior female body:” Reflections on life as a Tibetan visionary through the autobiographical eyes of Se ra mkha’ ’gro (bde ba’i rdo rje, 1892–1940) 115-150 Āryadeva’s gradual stages: Their transmission from India to Tibet 151-213 Interpreting the tantras: A Tibetan debate on the numbers of adepts admissible to tantric consecration 213-234 Introduction – Unearthing the foundations of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy 237-248 rṄog Blo ldan śes rab’s position on the Buddha-nature doctrine and its influence on the early gSaṅ phu tradition 249-283 Making and remaking the ultimate in early Tibetan readings of Śāntideva 285-318 The origin of the theory of definition and its place in Phya pa Chos kyi seṅ ge’s philosophical system 319-368 Phywa pa’s argumentative analogy between factive assessment (yid dpyod) and conceptual thought (rtog pa) 369-386 Pa tshab and the origin of Prāsaṅgika 387-417 In pursuit of transparent means of knowledge – The Madhyamaka project of rMa bya Byaṅ chub brtson ʼgrus 419-441 Źaṅ Thaṅ sag pa on theses (dam bcaʼ, pratijñā) in Madhyamaka thought 443-467 Roṅ zom Chos bzaṅ on Mahāyoga and Madhyamaka 469-481