{"product_id":"mountain-dharma-an-ocean-of-definitive-meaning-9780861714469","title":"Mountain Dharma: An Ocean of Definitive Meaning","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant annotated translation of Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen's \u003ci\u003eMountain Dharma\u003c\/i\u003e that opens a masterpiece of the Jonang tradition to Western readers and presents Dölpopa's provocative ideas about a true, eternal, and established reality that still impact Buddhism today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe controversial master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen shook Buddhist Tibet when he taught that an eternal enlightened essence, or buddha nature, exists in full form in all living beings. The ideas discussed in \u003ci\u003eMountain Dharma\u003c\/i\u003e are still as provocative now as when Dolpopa first taught them, impacting Buddhism to this day. Dolpopa identified the ultimate with the buddha nature, or \u003ci\u003esugata\u003c\/i\u003e essence, which he held to be eternal and not empty of self-nature. The buddha nature is perfect, with all its characteristics inherently present in all living beings. It is only the impermanent and temporary afflictions veiling the buddha nature that are empty of self-nature and must be removed through the practice of the path to allow it to manifest. Dolpopa establishes the validity of his theories with an ocean of quotations selected from Indian Buddhist scriptures and treatises of indisputable authority, showing us that the ultimate is a true, eternal, and established reality, empty merely of other relative phenomena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCyrus Stearns has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1973. His main teachers have been Dezhung Tulku Rinpoché, Chogyé Trichen Rinpoché, and Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché. He received a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Washington and is the author and translator of various books, including The Buddha from Dölpo, King of the Empty Plain, and Hermit of Go Cliffs. He is an independent scholar and translator living in the woods on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wisdom Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51572129530130,"sku":"9780861714469","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a9c5caa-4d57-43ba-b0dc-a64596a51bcd.jpg?v=1755853785","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mountain-dharma-an-ocean-of-definitive-meaning-9780861714469","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}