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Jonang
The Jonang is a school of Tibetan Buddhism that took its name from the monastery of Jonang in Tsang, founded in the late 13th century. Its great teacher Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361) developed the zhentong ('emptiness of other') doctrine, and the scholar Taranatha (1575–1634) made it prominent again under the patronage of the Tsangpa kings. After the Gelug victory of 1642 its monasteries in central Tibet were converted, but it survived in Amdo.
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