"Review Article of A Noble Noose of Methods, The Lotus Garland Synopsis: A Mahāyoga Tantra and Its Commentary, by Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer.”

A review article on a critical edition of a well-known Mahāyoga root tantra of the Rnying ma pa school, A Noble Noose of Methods, The Lotus Garland Synopsis (’Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa padma ’phreng gi don bsdus pa). Important issues are raised up on textual criticism and the methods of editing Oriental texts, the process of establishing a stemma, and the construction of a critical text.