Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes

Jared Douglas Rhoton received a Ph.D. in Indic Studies from Columbia University and was the translator of Deshung Rinpoche's The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception: An Oral Commentary on "The Three Visions" (Nang Sum) of Ngorchen Könchog Lhündrub.

"[Sakya Pandita's] treatise addresses both major and minor errors or unlawful deviations from the Dharma, and Rhoton's ample notes help the reader through the conceptual jungle of a philosophical work of this nature." — Traditional Yoga Studies Interactive"The first English translation of Sakya Pandita's thirteenth-century The Three Codes, together with his epistles, provides ready access to one of the pivotal scholastic polemic works of Tibetan Buddhism. Sakya Pandita offers a remarkable lens upon a culture struggling to define what authentic appropriation of Buddhist thought and practice from other cultures should entail, pointedly criticizing opposing systems that represent other Tibetan attempts at such appropriation." — John Makransky, coeditor of Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars

• Foreword Acknowledgments Note on Transcription List of Abbreviations Part I: Sakya Pandita’s Life and Work Introduction Part II: A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes Prologue Vows of Individual Liberation Vows of the Bodhisattva Vows of the Vajra Vehicle Epilogue Part III: Six Letters by Sakya Pandita 1. Reply to the Questions of the Translator from Chak 2. Reply to the Questions of the Translator of Lowo 3. A Letter to the Noble-Minded 4. A Letter to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions 5. Reply to the Questions of Dokorwa the Kadampa 6. Reply to the Questions of Namkha Bum the Kadampa Appendix A: Gorampa's Outline of A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes Appendix B: Transliteration of the Tibetan Text of A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes Glossary Bibliography Index About the Cover