Dolpopa: Empty of Other

An eight-chapter guided course on Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361), the master from Dolpo who taught emptiness of other: the Sakya education and the title Omniscient, the retreat where the zhentong view arose, the great stupa of Jonang and the first public teaching at the raising of the central poles, the Uttaratantra's charter verses, Dolpopa's own Seizing the Crucial Point of Every Utterly Perfect Discourse, the lineage before him (Yumo Mikyö Dorje, Tsen Kawoche), the Kālacakra described but not taught, the soul objection and Tāranātha's answers, the 1650 ban and the Amdo survival, the Rimé reopening, and the Third Karmapa's treatise with its later zhentong label flagged. An independent critical listening course: every doctrinal claim is labeled to its source, with Dolpopa's own words, the Indian texts he used, precursor and reception voices, and modern scholarship kept on separate shelves throughout. Realization and vision claims are reported as the tradition's own claims, never asserted as fact; there are no practice instructions anywhere in this course. Quotations are short and attributed; copyrights in the translations remain with their translators and publishers, and this release grants no rights in those texts. Narrated by Tara, an AI voice. Original narration and commentary CC0 1.0 Universal.

Sources
Treasury of Lives, "Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen", Cyrus Stearns (2008): https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Dolpopa-Sherab-Gyeltsen/2670 (read full)
Michael R. Sheehy, "A Brief History of the Jonang Tradition": https://jonangfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/essay-brief_history_jonang-ms-021407.pdf (read full)
Dolpopa, "Seizing the Crucial Point of Every Utterly Perfect Discourse", trans. Michael R. Sheehy (2008): https://jonangfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/jf_gnad_trans.pdf (read full)
Uttaratantra (Ratnagotravibhāga), trans. Karl Brunnhölzl, When the Clouds Part (Snow Lion 2014), selections: https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga_Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra/English
Tsen Kawoche, "Elucidating the Zhentong View", trans. Michael R. Sheehy: https://jonangfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/translation-elucidatingzhentong.pdf (read full)
Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, "Ordinary Awareness and Pristine Awareness", trans. Michael R. Sheehy (2007): https://jonangfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/jf_rangjung_1.pdf (read full)
Tāranātha, "The Essence of Zhentong", trans. Michael R. Sheehy (2007), selections: https://jonangfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/jf_snying-po_final.pdf
Dolpopa, "Aspiration Prayer of the Ultimate Definitive Meaning", trans. Michael R. Sheehy (2006), read but not quoted: https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/dolpopa-sherab-gyaltsen/aspiration-of-ultimate-definitive-meaning
Not read: Dolpopa, Mountain Dharma: An Ocean of Definitive Meaning (English translation exists, Hopkins 2006, unused); the course describes the book only through Sheehy's summary.

Chapters
00:00 Chapter 1: The Boy from Dolpo
07:12 Chapter 2: The Valley of Meditators
15:22 Chapter 3: The Charter Verse
24:34 Chapter 4: Empty of Other
33:11 Chapter 5: The First Stones
41:31 Chapter 6: The Wheel of Time
49:39 Chapter 7: The Cathedral and Its Critics
58:33 Chapter 8: The Second Life