Mountain Doctrine - Tapa dura

"The Mountain Doctrine of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen is one of the great monuments of Tibetan philosophical literature. For nearly 700 years Dolpopa's work has been a fundamental source of inspiration for practitioners attracted to the definitive meaning of the Buddha's teachings. Jeffrey Hopkins deserves our sincere gratitude for making this profound message finally available to students of the Dharma outside Tibet."--Cyrus Stearns, author of The Buddha from Dolpo

"It is only fitting that Hopkins, who wrote the single most important monograph on the central Buddhist concept of emptiness, should have undertaken to translate Dolpopa's text for the first time. Few others would have been qualified for this challenging task. . . . Contains mountains of material for deep philosophical reflection and once again drives home the point that conceptual differences exist even between awakened masters, and that regardless of doctrinal differences, their fine-tuned teachings can point the way to enlightenment. A magnificent volume."--Georg Feuerstein, PhD, author of The Deeper Dimension of Yoga

"This monumental publication will serve as an invaluable source on emptiness and buddha nature for generations to come."--Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

A first translation of a seminal fourteenth-century Tibetan text on the nature of reality and the Buddha-nature identifies and defines two types of emptiness--self-emptiness and other-emptiness--and demonstrates how other-emptiness is an actual ultimate truth that was favored by early spiritual leaders.