Tsongkhapa : Golden Garland of Eloquence [Vol 1] - Abhisamaya

A translation of Golden Garland of Eloquence (Legs bshad gser phreng), the famous Prajnaparamita commentary written by the great Tibetan yogi-scholar Lama Tsong Khapa. It is Tsong Khapa's first major work, written before his better known works on Madhyamaka and it is greatly respected and much studied by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet. The Golden Garland supplements the two main Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) commentaries - Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti and Haribhadra's Aloka, on which it is based. It explains the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and earlier commentaries in detail, glossing difficult words and going into detailed explanations of difficult points. It introduces the reader to some twenty works by the most important Indian Prajnaparamita writers, and to earlier Tibetan traditions of Ngok and Dolpopa, and the traditiosn of Buton and Nyaon.

This translation makes available, for the first time in English, an example of the rich Tibetan Perfection of Wisdom commentarial tradition and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers alike. This is the first of four volumes.