Bka' bsdu bzhi pa'i don bstan rtsis chen po

བཀའ་བསྡུ་བཞི་པའི་དོན་བསྟན་རྩིས་ཆེན་པོ།

Bka' bsdu bzhi pa'i don bstan rtsis chen po

The Great Calculation of the Doctrine Which Has the Significance of a Fourth Council

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The seminal work of Dölpopa often simply referred to as the Fourth Council. Structured around the notion of four eons drawn from the Kālacakra Tantra, it is one of the primary sources for Dölpopa's presentation of his other-emptiness (zhentong) philosophy.

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Bka' bsdu bzhi pa'i don bstan rtsis chen po. (The Great Calculation of the Doctrine Which Has the Significance of a Fourth Council). Recension information:

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Dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan. བཀའ་བསྡུ་བཞི་པའི་དོན་བསྟན་རྩིས་ཆེན་པོ།, (Bka' bsdu bzhi pa'i don bstan rtsis chen po). In Gsung 'bum shes rab rgyal mtshan. Paro, Bhutan: Lama Ngodrup and Sherab Drimay, 1984: pp. 363-418. In Gsung 'bum shes rab rgyal mtshan ('dzam thang), Vol. 6: 165-202. 'Dzam thang: 'Dzam thang bsam 'grub nor bu'i gling gi par khang, 1998. In Bka' bsdu bzhi pa. Pe cin: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2014.

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Kālacakra - Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered. Skt. कालचक्र Tib. དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། Ch. 時輪

tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性