Nyingcha, Dorje

Nyingcha, Dorje on the DRL

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Dorje Nyingcha

English Phonetics	Dorje Nyingcha
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Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Center for Studies of Ethnic Minorities in Northwest China, Lanzhou University

Biographical Information

Dorje Nyingcha is Associate Professor at the Center for Studies of Ethnic Minorities in Northwest China at Lanzhou University. He began studying Tibetan literature at Northwest Minzu University in Lanzhou where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995. He received his doctorate in South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on biographies and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, particularly pre-fourteenth-century intellectual history. His dissertation was on Garungpa Lhai Gyaltsen (1319-1402/3), a student of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361) who became an important scholar and defender of the Jonang tradition in the fourteenth century. (Sheehy and Mathes, The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet, 381)

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The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.