Chapter 2: The Three Truths and the Tiantai Reading of the Verse¶

[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.

• The dependent-arising verse read as three truths: empty, provisional, middle; one mind contemplating all three.
• Part 18's reading recalled: the verse as the compact of the theorem, the middle as the joint name of double rejection plus preservation.
• The issue formalized: the standing of the middle truth; joint name or third entity; syntax of "identical-to" audited.
• Draft verdict handed to chapter 6.