Article: The Buddha From Dolpo: A study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.(Review)

The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. By CYRUS STEARNS. SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1999. Pp. xi + 318. $20.95 (paper).

The mainstream of philosophy of monastic Buddhism in Tibet takes the Middle Stanzas (Madhyamaka-karika) of Nagarjuna as the ultimate statement of how things are: all phenomena (dharma) are empty of self-nature (rang-stong). However, one stream of heterodox thought, sometimes suppressed, has developed an ontology that places "emptiness of self-nature" on a non-ultimate plane (a "relative truth," samvrtisatya); the ultimate view is that ...

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