| |ArticleSummary=This paper cxplores the doctrinal position of Dge rtse Mahāpandita ’Gyur med tshe dbang mchog grub<ref>Kapstein notes that “Dge-rtse Pandita, in fact, came to be regarded as an emanation of Dol-po-pa himself.” See Kapstein, 1995: 462; Steams, 2010: 356n325; Ngag dbang yon tan bzang po (1928-2002) mentions Dge rtse Mahāpandita. See ''Jo nang chos ’byung dang rje jo nang pa chen po ’i ring lugs'', 90; Burchardi, 2007: 4; Duckworth, 2008; for biographical information relating to Dge rtse Mahāpandita, see ''Kaḥ thog lo rgyus'', 108-111; Achard, 2003; Ronis, 2009.</ref> (1761-1829) namely, the Great Madhyamaka of other-emptiness (''gzhan stong dbu ma chen po''). Dge rtse Mahāpandita was the first of the Dge rtse reincamation lineage, and served as an abbot of the Kah thog monastery of the Rnying ma school of Tibetan Buddhism in Khams, in eastem Tibet. | | |ArticleSummary=This paper cxplores the doctrinal position of Dge rtse Mahāpandita ’Gyur med tshe dbang mchog grub<ref>Kapstein notes that “Dge-rtse Pandita, in fact, came to be regarded as an emanation of Dol-po-pa himself.” See Kapstein, 1995: 462; Steams, 2010: 356n325; Ngag dbang yon tan bzang po (1928-2002) mentions Dge rtse Mahāpandita. See ''Jo nang chos ’byung dang rje jo nang pa chen po ’i ring lugs'', 90; Burchardi, 2007: 4; Duckworth, 2008; for biographical information relating to Dge rtse Mahāpandita, see ''Kaḥ thog lo rgyus'', 108-111; Achard, 2003; Ronis, 2009.</ref> (1761-1829) namely, the Great Madhyamaka of other-emptiness (''gzhan stong dbu ma chen po''). Dge rtse Mahāpandita was the first of the Dge rtse reincamation lineage, and served as an abbot of the Kah thog monastery of the Rnying ma school of Tibetan Buddhism in Khams, in eastem Tibet.<ref>Eimer and Tsering, 1981: 13-14; Ronis, 2009.</ref>Apart from the fact that Dge rtse Mahāpandita edited the Sde dge ecfition of the ''Rnying ma rgyud ’bum'',<ref>Achard, 2003; Cantwell, 2002: 364; Derbac, 2007: 22-27, 70—156; Martin, 1997: 143; Mayer, 2006: 105; according to Dorje and Kapstein, the ''Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism'' by Dudjom Rinpoche derive in part from Dge rtse Mahāpandita’s ''Rnying ma rgyud ’bum dkar chag''. See Dorje and Kapstein, 1991: 398; Thondup notes that Dge rtse Maliāpandita “wrote the history of the Ancietn Tantric tradition and the catalogue for the new publication.” See Thondup, 1997: 182; van Schaik, 2000: 5; ''Rnying ma rgyud 'bum gyi dkar chag gsal ba'i me long'', 15-16, 38-254; also Tibetan Literary Encyclopedia, under http://www.thlib.org/encvcloDedias/literarv/canons/ngb/: see Cantwell, |