Chapter 8: Verdict and Handoff¶

[PLANNED] This chapter has not yet been written; what follows is a skeleton. The skeleton is laid out at full-treatment scale: the brief version walks only the trunk of each item, and a later expansion thickens the same outline without restructuring.

• Item-by-item verdict: seeds, storehouse, reflexive awareness, perfected nature, each judged by whether it stays within conventional status.
• The contribution ledger: the final resting place of Part 15's difficulties.
• Signposts only: Paramartha's school, Xuanzang and Kuiji; the tathagatagarbha thread honestly shelved.
• Handoff: both classification lines converge on Tiantai; the division ends at Part 21.