I. Teachings of the Mahayana Perfection Doctrine (including the five teachings of Maitraya:

 1. Abhisamayalamkara by Maitraya/Asanga (The Jewel/Ornament of Clear/Manifest Realization)

 2. Mahaynasutralamkara by Maitraya/Asanga (Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature or Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras)

 3. Dharmadharmtavibhanga by Maitraya/Asanga (Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being or Distinguishing Dharma and Dharmata)

 4. Madhyantavibhanga by Maitraya/Asanga (Distinguishing the Middle and the Extremes)

 5. Anuttaratantrasastra by Maitraya/Asanga (The Higher Continuum Treatise or Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra)

II. Monastic Discipline

 7. Pratimoksasutra

 8. Vinayasutra by Gunaprabha (A Summary of Vowed Morality)

III. Madhyamaka Philosophy

 9. Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna (The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way)

 10. Madhyamakavatara by Candrakiriti (Guide or Introduction to the Middle Way)

 11. Catuhsataka by Aryadeva (Four Hundred Verses of Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas)

IV. Abhidarma: Metaphysics

 12. Abhidharmakosa by Vasubandhu

 13. Abhidharmasamuccaya by Asanga (The Compendium of the Higher Teaching)

V. Logic and Epistemology

 14. Pramanasamuccaya by Dignaga (Compendium on Valid Perception )

 15. Pramanavartika by Dharmakirti (The Commentary on Valid Perception)

 16. Pramanaviniscaya by Dharmakirti (Ascertainment of Valid Cognition)

 17. Tsad ma rigs gter by Sa-skya Pandita (Treasury of Logic on Valid Cognition): Only text of Tibetan origin ever to have been translated into Sanskrit (Nalanda University).

VI. Right Practice of the Vows

 18. Sdom gsum rab dbye by Sa-skya Pandita (A Clear Differentiation of the Codes:  Essential Distinctions Among the Individual Liberation, Great Vehicle, and Tantric Systems)

These are the texts for the basic curriculum of the the eighteen most important scholastic texts, together with their Tibetan and Indian commentaries as followed by the Sakya College at Rajpur, Dehradun, India, founded in 1972 by H.H. Sakya Trizen. No English translations have been found of the texts on logic and epistemology or on vowed morality by Gunaprabha.

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