]> 2026-10-15T19:20:36-04:00 People/Dol po pa 0 en ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་; ཤེས་རབ་མགོན་; རྟོན་པ་བཞི་ལྡན་; shes rab rgyal mtshan; shes rab mgon; rton pa bzhi ldan; Jonang,Tsen Tradition Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was one of the most influential Buddhist masters in Tibetan history. He first became an important scholar of the Sakya tradition, but then moved to Jonang Monastery. There he became the fourth holder of the monastic seat and constructed a monumental stupa. Dölpopa’s ideas, specifically his famous formulation of the zhentong view and his interpretations of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna doctrine, have elicited controversy for nearly seven hundred years. gtsang stod mnga' ris dol po gru gsum spu mdo Person People File:Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.jpg https://commons.tsadra.org/images/f/ff/Dolpopa_Sherab_Gyaltsen.jpg https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1595 true true true true false File:Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.jpg File:Dolpopa.jpg|[https://www.himalayanart.org/items/55692 Himalayan Art Resources] File:Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.jpg;File:Dolpopa.jpg Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen;དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan;Dol po pa false Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.jpg Dol po pa ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ ཤེས་རབ་མགོན་ རྟོན་པ་བཞི་ལྡན་ shes rab rgyal mtshan shes rab mgon rton pa bzhi ldan Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan Classical Tibetan Authors Yes "The crucial stanza [RGV] I.27, in which the three reasons for the presence of a buddha nature in sentient beings are presented, is thus explained in the following way: Since the dharmakāya of the perfect buddha embraces and pervades all phenomena, since there is no differentiation [to be made] within the dharmatā concerning all samsāra and nirvāna, and since the potential of the tathāgata exists in all sentient beings as the natural purity of the dharmadhātu, which can be purified of hindrances, truly every being possesses, always, continuously, and throughout beginningless time, the ultimate essence of the Buddha." [[Mathes, K.]], ''[[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]]'', p. 82. Definitive Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities) "He typically describes both buddha nature and the dharmakāya as being ultimately really established, everlasting, eternal, permanent, immutable (''ther zug''), and being beyond dependent origination. He also equates the tathāgata heart with “ālaya-wisdom” as opposed to the ālaya-consciousness." [[Brunnhölzl, K.]], ''[[When the Clouds Part]]'', p. 68. Third Turning Dolpopa has a unique view on this issue as Wangchuk points out: *"Dölpopa argues the following: (1) Cittamātra is categorized into Conventional Cittamātra (''kun rdzob pa'i sems tsam'') and Ultimate Cittamātra (''don dam pa'i sems tsam''); (2) Cittamātra must not be conflated with Vijnānavāda; (3) Madhyamaka is grouped into Madyamaka without Appearance (''snang med dbu ma'') and Madhyamaka with Appearance (''snang bcas dbu ma''). His Mahäyäna doxography differs significantly from that of other fourteenth-century Tibetan scholars." [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 47. *It seems that the simple answer is that Dolpopa espoused Great Madhyamaka (''dbu ma chen mo'') or Madhyamaka with Appearance (''snang bcas dbu ma''), which is equivalent to Ultimate Cittamātra (''don dam pa'i sems tsam''). See [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', pp. 49-50. Zhentong He was not the first to use the term, but he was the one to define and make it a central feature of his innovative philosophical position: *"According to traditional Tibetan accounts, the revolutionary theory that the ultimate is not "empty of an own-being” (''rang stong'') but “empty of other” (''gzhan stong'') arose in Dölpopas mind during a Kālacakra retreat at Jonang. Lhai Gyaltsen informs us that Dölpopas realization was connected with the ''Kālacakratantra'' and the construction of the great ''stūpa'' in Jonang, which was consecrated in 1333. One of the first works in which Dölpopa expressed his new zhentong understanding of the Buddhist doctrine was his famous ''Ri chos nges don rgya mtsho''. His last major work was the ''Bka bsdu bzhi pa'' (''Bka' bsdu bzhi pa'i don bstan rtsis chen po'', ''The Great Reckoning of the Doctrine That Has the Significance of a Fourth Council''), which can be seen as a final summary of Dölpopas views." [[Mathes, K.]], ''[[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]]'', p. 75. Jonang tshul khrims snying po skyi ston 'jam dbyangs skyi ston grags pa rgyal mtshan sa skya slob dpon shes rab bzang po gzhon nu bzang po blo gros bstan pa jo gdan mkhan po bsod nams grags pa nag 'bum jo nang chos rje yon gtan rgya mtsho Classical jo nang lo tsA ba blo gros dpal g.yag sde paN chen bsod nams rgyal mtshan phyogs las rnam rgyal sa bzang ma ti paN chen blo gros rgyal mtshan 'bri gung lo tsA ba ma Ni ka shrI nya dbon kun dga' dpal kun spangs chos grags dpal bzang Dragon Water Male 5 Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was one of the most influential Buddhist masters in Tibetan history. He first became an important scholar of the Sakya tradition, but then moved to Jonang Monastery. There he became the fourth holder of the monastic seat and constructed a monumental stupa. Dölpopa’s ideas, specifically his famous formulation of the zhentong view and his interpretations of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna doctrine, have elicited controversy for nearly seven hundred years. Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was one of the most influential Buddhist masters in Tibetan history. He first became an important scholar of the Sakya tradition, but then moved to Jonang Monastery. There he became the fourth holder of the monastic seat and constructed a monumental stupa. Dölpopa’s ideas, specifically his famous formulation of the zhentong view and his interpretations of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna doctrine, have elicited controversy for nearly seven hundred years. https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Dolpopa-Sherab-Gyeltsen/2670 Dol po pa;དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan;Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen;;; ; ; 1292 1361 2018-07-04T17:59:46Z 2458304.249838 2020-07-31T21:41:05Z 2459062.4035301 false People/Dol po pa 0 0 template commons 1 [[:Dol po pa]] People/Dol po pa# QUERY449fc244727bbeb6a98612cc19aac5ad 0 200 1 template 13 <q>[[BuNayAuthor::Dol po pa]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[People::Dol po pa||People/Dol po pa]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]] OR [[Performer::People/Dol po pa]] [[BuNayPageType::!Person]]</q> People/Dol po pa# QUERY70cb92e0a74f75112150b74fa83fb7fb 0 200 1 template 3 [[Category:Library Items]] [[BuNayTopicTags::People/Dol po pa]] People/Dol po pa# QUERY261f045264f359c28a3fe78473f89bc7 0 1 ul 2 [[BuNayTopicTags::~"Dol po pa"]] People/Dol po pa# QUERYe606ad18714fe5a6fc4a4a88dcbe0afa 0 Le Bouddha du Dolpo# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5 0 Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5 0 The Buddha from Dolpo (2010)# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5 0 The Uttaratantra in the Age of Argumentation: Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen and His Fourteenth-Century Interlocutors on Buddha-Lineage# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5# 72112d8462928e76ab6ae6ac37e511d5 Books/A Complete Session of Meditation 0 en A Complete Session of Meditation Articles/A Tree In The West: Competing Tathāgatagarbha Theories in Tibet 0 en A Tree In The West: Competing Tathāgatagarbha Theories in Tibet Articles/Can We Speak of Kadam Gzhan Stong? 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