Studying at Karma Drubdey's Shedra

Foundation Years

One: Mipham’s Introduction to Scholarship (a.k.a., Gateway to Knowledge) (mKhas ’jug)

Two: Bodhicharyavatara (Entering the Way of a Bodhisattva)

Shedra Years

One: Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosha (chapters 1-4) and Khenpo Tsültrim Gyatso Rinpoche’s Presentation of the Essence of the Ocean of Mind and Awareness

Two: Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosha (chapters 5-8) and Khenpo Tsültrim Gyatso Rinpoche’s Presentation of the Ocean of Traditions of Logic

Three: Aryadeva’s Four Hundred  and Dharmakirti’s Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition), chapter one

Four: Maitreya’s Mahayanasutralamkara  (Ornament of the Mahayana Sūtras) and Dharmakīrti’s Pramaṇavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition), chapter two

Five: Maitreya’s Abhisamayalamkara (Ornament of Clear Realization) and Dharmakīrti’s Pramaṇavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition), chapter three

Six: Maitreya’s Abhisamayalamkara (Ornament of Clear Realization) and Dharmakīrti’s Pramaṇavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition), chapter four

Seven: Maitreya’s Abhisamayalamkara (Ornament of Clear Realization) and the second Karmapa Rangjung Dorje’s Treatise on the Distinction Between Consciousness and Wisdom (rNam shes ye shes ’byed pa’i bstan bcos)

Eight: Chandrakirti’s Madhyamakavatara (Entering the Middle Way), chapters 1-5, and Maitreya’s  Madhyantavibhaṅga (Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes) and Dharmadharmatavibhaga (Differentiation Between Phenomena and their Nature)

Nine: Chandrakirti’s Madhyamakavatara (Entering the Middle Way), chapter 6, and Maitreya’s Uttaratantra (Highest Continuum)