The volume presents an annotated translation in English of the Tibetan critical edition of Tsong kha pa’s commentary, blo-gsal bgrod-pa’i them-skas, on the different types of noble beings that progress towards awakening. The commentary by Tsong kha pa (fourteenth-fifteenth centuries), recognised as one of the masters of Tibetan Buddhism, offers an exegesis of the characteristics and attainments that noble beings (those of the Buddhist samgha who ...