Mountain doctrine
Subtitle: Tibet's fundamental treatise on other-emptiness and the Buddha-matrix
By: Döl-b̄o-b̄a S̄hay-rap-gyel-tsen ; translated and introduced by Jeffrey Hopkins ; edited by Kevin Vose.
Contributors: Hopkins, Jeffrey.; Vose, Kevin, 1970-
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 853
ISBN-13: 9781559392389
Subjects: Jo-naṅ-pa (Sect) -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Buddhism -- China -- Tibet -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Tibet's fundamental treatise on other-emptiness and the Buddha-matrix
Work titles: Ri chos ṅes don rgya mtsho źes bya ba mthar thug thun moṅ ma yin paʾi man ṅag.
Description: "Translated here for the first time into any language, Mountain Doctrine, Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Final Unique Quintessential Instructions is a seminal fourteenth-century Tibetan text on the nature of reality. The author, Dol-bo-ba Shay-rap-gyel-tsen, was one 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 and by showing how important these doctrines were in India." "The translator's introduction includes a short biography of Dol-bo-ba and an exposition of nine focal topics in his religious philosophy."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Gift of Henry G. Schwarz.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 797-823) and index.