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Index

study of the path, 23, 7172, 172

82, 189, 233 34, 238; and Buddhist practice, 174 77; closure
through, 187 89, 191, 305; faith
development, 179 80, 182, 248;
insight into emptiness, 243,
332 33; texts, 133, 172 82.
See also Stages of the Path
literature
suddenists, on closure, 188 89
summaries (General Meaning), 108,
124; Cha-bas, 138, 143, 367n77; in
commentary typology, 185; Ngoks,
137; S-nam-drak-bas, 162
Summa Theologica (Aquinas), 10, 11
Sum-pa Ken-po Ye-shay-bel-jor
(1702 1788), 321, 392n15
Sunni curriculum, 115
supplement, 183 94; complement or
displacement, 186 89; deconstructive, 183, 186 87, 193; as reinscribing original meaning, 186. See also
commentaries
suspicion, hermeneutics of, 269 70,
324, 391n7
sutras, 18 19, 20, 89, 110, 174; curriculum, 107, 109, 110, 120, 128,
129, 132, 360 61n16; dened, 107;
Heart, 46, 89, 248 49; Hinayana,
18, 21, 25; interpretation of, 190;
Mahayana, 18 19, 21, 25, 107, 175,
190, 339n19. See also Perfection of
Wisdom sutra
Svatantrika, 238, 245, 282 83,
386n34
syllogism, 205, 206, 207, 378 79n24
symbolic capital, scholastic skills as,
164, 260
synthesis, in debate, 232 33
systematization: of canons, 2527; of
curriculum, 307 12
Talmuds, 11516, 193, 397n23
Tambiah, Stanley, 36 37, 344n15,
395n4
Ta-nak monastery, 146 47

tantras, 19 20, 24, 89, 174, 177, 330,

338n12; in curriculum, 11112,
118 20, 128, 129, 13132, 180 81;
deities, 47, 119, 298; exoteric,
361n20; Guhyagarbha, 131, 204;
Guhyasamaja, 11112, 118, 142;
gurus, 61; Heruka, 140; Hevajra,
23, 132; Hinayana, 22, 25; Mahayana, 2122, 25; practice, 19 22,
26, 118, 290 91, 339n16, 340n23,
361n17; prostration in practice of,
178; rituals, 45, 47, 118 20, 247,
348n47; Root, 118; secrecy, 118
20; spiritual lineages, 28 29; supramundane, 20, 298; yogic, 19 20,
22 23
tantric gurus, 61
tantric monasteries, 23, 89 90, 118;
Higher Lhasa, 64, 256 57, 361n18;
Lower Lhasa, 290, 361n18. See also
Ngak-pa monasteries
tantrikas, 21, 147, 337n18, 339n20
Tara deity, 46, 248 49, 388n43
Tar-gye monastery, 56
Ta-shi Go-mang monastery, 48, 124,
128
Ta-shi Lhun-po monastery, 48, 121,
126, 357n19, 383n3
taxes, 51, 345n26
teachers, 53, 54 75, 86; as debate authority, 25152; debate-teaching
practices, 23132; devotion to, 62
63, 273 74; exceptional, 275; as
Gen-la, 61; house, 50, 59; instructions by, 150, 15152; lineage
groupings of, 155; nonmonastic,
147; premodern, 83 84; religious
relation with, 61, 272 73, 351n20;
room/worldly, 5559; scholastic,
59 61; student relationships with,
59 63, 160 63, 272 81, 290, 295
96, 350n17, 351n20; students debating, 275, 392n15; text, 59 61;
transmission by, 85, 154 57, 273.
See also gurus; Lati Rin-po-che;
Lob-zang Gya-tso; Nyi-ma, Gen;