Posts Tagged ‘zhentong’
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New Texts and Catalog of the Dolpopa Collection
An annotated listing of each Tibetan title in the 2011 edition of Dolpopa’s Collected Writings is attached below, including a list of the thirteen titles that are not included in either of…
Read MoreDolpopa on Emptiness
The following post is titled, Emptiness of Self-nature and Emptiness of Other by Cyrus Stearns, a contributing author to the Jonangpa blog. It is an excerpt from the reprint of…
Read MoreThe Quintessence of Rangtong
A long time coming, actually a year to the day since my last January 13th posting, The Quintessence of Zhentong from the collection of 108 Quintessential Instructions, I thought to…
Read MoreReflecting ‘The Crystal Mirror’
Maybe its the dark magnetism of impending all hallows’ eve, but I’m feeling a mischievous urge to rile up all the ghouls and goblins of unapologetic dogmatism and have them…
Read MoreRongton’s Praise to Dolpopa
Over the summer, I was browsing through a Tibetan book shop and I happened upon the recently reproduced collected works of Rongton Shakya Gyaltsen (1367-1449). As I opened the first…
Read MoreAt the Great Stupa of Jonang
The following is a transcript of a talk, The Legacy of the Jonangpa by Michael Sheehy at the Great Stupa of Jonang in Tibet on July 17, 2009. So, the…
Read MoreTsoknyi Gyatso on Zhentong
Without jumping the gun (as we continue to set the text), I thought to write a post with the hope to help contextualize a forthcoming publication in the Tibetan language…
Read MoreKongtrul’s Jonangpa Connections
One of the most fascinating figures in Tibetan history, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé (1813-1899) is also one of the most studied Tibetan masters. In addition to several articles on his…
Read MoreAre there Geluk Zhentongpas?
Are there Geluk zhentongpas? This is a question that I’ve been asking for some time. Fortunately, a set of rare texts that were recently recovered from Tibet may shed some…
Read MoreNotes on Jonang Series II
The second set in the Jonang Publication Series (Jo nang dpe tshogs) was recently published (vols. 11-21) in Beijing.[1] This annual series is dedicated to making select works on sūtra…
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