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Appendix B Using the Analysis Software 199 Appendix C Writing Results Sections 209 Appendix D Presenting Your Work 219 Appendix E Installing the Software 229 Index 233 Introduction I Pakpa and the Mongol Endgame 6 Historical Agents in the Renaissance o1 The Sakya Paradigm and the Present Work 14 Renaissance as a Trope 18 I Early Medieval India and the Esoteric Rhapsody 22 Sociopolitical India in the Medieval Period 24 The Buddhist Experience and Institutional Esoteric Buddhism 28 The Perfected: Siddhas and the Margins of Society 32 Tantric Literature and Ritual 34 Naropa the Legend: The Great Pandita Goes Native 44 Viripa's Hagiography: Mr. Ugly Comes to Town 49 Hagiography, Lineage, and Transmission 54 Conclusion: Emerging Indian Rituals 59 2 The Demise of Dynasty and a Poorly Lit Path 61 Good Intentions at the End of the Empire 62 Fragmentation: Flight in the Dark, Light in the Tombs 66 Religion on an Uneven Path 72 Clans in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries 80 Conclusion: A Change of Fortune in Tibet 83 3 Renaissance and Reformation: The Eastern Vinaya Monks 84 In Pursuit of Virtue in the Northeast 86 To Central Tibet on a Mission from Buddha 92 Conflict on the Roof of the World 105 West Tibet and the Kadampa Connection io8 History as the Victory of Great Ideas and Good Organization 112 Conclusion: A Tradition Under the Imperial Shadow I15 4 Translators as the New Aristocracy 117 Mantrins and Motivation for New Translations 19 Trans-Himalayan Coronation 122 The Curious Career of Ralo Dorj6-drak 129 Tantric Action in Practice 136 The Mysterious Master Marpa 141 Gray Texts, New Translation Apocrypha, and Zhama Ch6kyi Gyelpo 148 The Invention of Neoconservative Orthodoxy I15 The Cult and Culture of Knowledge I55 Conclusion: The Translator as Prometheus 157 5 Drokmi: The Doyen of Central Tibetan Translators 161 The Nomadic Translator 163 Drokmi in India 169 An Eventual Return to Tibet 174 The Indian Contingent: Gayadhara and the Other Panditas 178 Drokmi's Work and the Origin of the Root Text of the *Margaphala 183 The Contents of the Root Text of the *Mdrgaphala 189 The Eight Subsidiary Cycles of Practice 194 Drokmi's Other Translations 204 Conclusion: Fallible Characters with Literary Genius 208 6 Treasure Texts, the Imperial Legacy, and the Great Perfection 210 Buried Treasures Amid the Rubble of Empire 211 Guarded by Spirits: The Hidden Imperial Person 217 Terma in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 224 Give Me That Old-Time Religion 232 The Alternative Cult of Knowledge: Rig-pa 235 Conclusion: The Absent Imperium as an Eternal Treasure 242 7 The Late Eleventh Century: From Esoteric Lineages to Clan Temples 244 The Little Black Acarya: Padampa and His Zhiche 245 Popular Expressions and a Zeal to Spread the Message 249 The Late-Eleventh-Century Intellectual Efflorescence 257 Drokmi's Legacy and the Next Generation 263 The Kh6n Clan Mythology and Sakya Beginnings as a Clan Temple 267 Conclusion: New Beginnings in the Wake of the Translators 274 8 The Early Twelfth Century: A Confident Tibetan Buddhism 276 The Kadampa Intellectual Community 278 The Kilacakra Comes of Age 28i Gampopa and the Kagytipa Efflorescence 282 The Ladies Machik Expand the Repertoire: Chb and the Zhama Lamdr6 290 Sachen Kunga Nyingpo: Sakya Crisis and Continuity 293 Bari-lotsawa and the Ritual Imperative 297 Sachen and the Eleven Commentaries 303 Sachen's Other Literary Legacy 311 The Viripa Visions and the Kh6n Short Transmission 315 Conclusion: Tibetans Reformulate Their Religion 321 9 The Late Twelfth to Early Thirteenth Century: Ethical Crises, International Prestige, and Institutional Maturation 323 Conflict and Crazies in the Late Twelfth Century 327 Kagyfpa Missionary Activity and the Tanguts 332 Sachen's Disciples, Sons, and the Continuity of Tradition 33 Perpetuating the Kh6n Line: Sonam Ts6mo 338 Drakpa Gyeltsen and the Sakya Institution 343 Dreams, Revelation, and Death 350 The Brothers as Complementary Littdrateurs and the Domestication of the Lamdre 352 Esoteric Clarification and the Integration of the Exegetical System 360 The Buddhist Context and Early Sakya Pedagogical Works 367 Conclusion: A Secure Source of Buddhist Spirituality 369 10 Conclusion and Epilogue: The Victory of the Clan Structure, Late Tantric Buddhism, and the Neoconservative Vision 371