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- Title
OTHER-EMPTINESS IN THE JONANG SCHOOL: THE THEO-LOGIC OF BUDDHIST DUALISM.
- Authors
Duckworth, Douglas S.
- Abstract
This paper aims to clarify the meaning of other-emptiness in the Jonang (Jo nang) tradition of Buddhism of Tibet. The focus is on the writings of Dölpopa (dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan, 1292-1361), the renowned forefather of this tradition. Dölpopa famously differentiated two types of emptiness, or two ways of being empty--self-emptiness (rang stong) and other-emptiness (gzhan stong)--and proclaimed the superiority of the latter. Dölpopa maintains that other-emptiness is better because it represents what really exists while self-emptiness does not, and that it also offers a more effective means to access the real. While Dölpopa is famous for asserting the real existence of a nondual ultimate reality, it is argued here that his depiction of other-emptiness represents a fairly clear-cut account of dualism.
- Subjects
EMPTINESS (Philosophy); OTHER (Philosophy); BUDDHIST doctrines; TIBETAN Buddhism; DUALISM (Religion); SELF
- Publication
Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy, 2015, Vol 65, Issue 2, p485
- ISSN
0031-8221
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/pew.2015.0045