Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
1292 CE–1361 CE · Dölpo
1292–1361 CE
Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361 CE) was the most influential master of the Jonang school and the chief expositor of the controversial 'emptiness of other' (zhentong) view, which holds that ultimate reality—buddha-nature—is empty of all that is extraneous to it while not empty of its own awakened qualities. Born in the Himalayan region of Dölpo in present-day Nepal, he trained across the traditions of his day and led the Jonang seat, where his teaching sparked centuries of debate with proponents of the more standard 'self-emptiness' (rangtong) reading of Madhyamaka. He is a securely historical and well-documented figure; his view remains contested within Tibetan Buddhism.
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Dölpo
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DOCUMENTED ORIGIN: born in the high Himalayan region of Dölpo, in the far west of present-day Nepal, from which he takes his name.
About Dölpo
Dölpo is a high, remote region of the Tibetan cultural world in what is now northwestern Nepal. It was the birthplace, in 1292, of Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, the master who systematised the 'empty-of-other' (shentong) view and became the great exponent of the Jonang tradition — and from whose homeland he took his name.
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