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Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise On Other-Emptiness And The Buddha Matrix

By Jeffrey Hopkins , Dol-Bo-Ba Shay-Rap-Gyel-Tsen

Book information

Publisher
Snow Lion
Year
2006
ISBN
155939238X, 9781559392389
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
49 MB (51821082 bytes)
Pages
832\877
Time added
2012-11-29 03:00:18

Description

Translated here for the first time into any language, Mountain Doctrine  is a seminal fourteenth-century Tibetan text on the nature of reality. The author, Dol-bo-ba Shay-rap-gyel-tsen, was on of the most influential figures of that dynamic period of doctrinal formulation, and his text is a sustained argument about the buddha-nature, also called the matrix-of-one-gone-thus. Dol-bo-ba recognizes two important types of emptiness—self-emptiness and other-emptiness—and shows how other-emptiness is the actual ultimate truth. He justifies this controversial formulation by arguing that it was the favored system of all the early outstanding figures of the Great Vehicle. The translator's introduction includes a short biography of Dol-bo-ba and an exposition of nine focal topics in his religious philosophy

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