 Clarifying the Sage’s Intent (D. Jackson 2015) is a path text, of the genre called Tenrim (bstan rim), “stages of the doctrine”, which lays out in detail the practices and accomplishments for beings on the way from ordinary person to liberated Buddha. It is an elegant and comprehensive approach to the path of the bodhisattva, drawing from Indian sources—especially the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra and the Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asaṅga. Sapaṇ makes creative use of these sources in a variety of ways, and the work is a complex interplay of tradition and innovation. Yet for our purposes, the most significant aspects of the work are not in his construction of the path or his characterizations of bodhisattva practice, but in a number of philosophical excurses. Unlike the Three Vows, the Sage’s Intent is not primarily intended as a polemic text; yet occasionally Sapaṇ feels it necessary to address controversial issues relevant to topics that arise in the course of his descriptions of the bodhisattva path.