[Buddha-l] New Publication

[Steven Rhodes]

A forthcoming book which might be of interest to list members:

New release from Snow Lion Publications:
 
MOUNTAIN DOCTRINE: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and 
the Buddha Matrix
by Dol-bo-ba Shay-rap-gyel-tsen
trans., ed. and intro. by Jeffrey Hopkins
 

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.

 

Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the 
University of Virginia. He lives near Charlottesville, VA.

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