For Dölpopa and those who espouse analogous shentong doctrines: Dölpopa further comments that worldlings believe that they have Self, happiness, permanence, and purity, but that they look in the wrong direction for these transcendental qualities, whereas those who have transcended the world use these terms meaningfully since they know where these qualities are to be found. Even having faith in the reality of these higher qualities helps remove spiritual veils: Cyrus Stearns points out that for Dölpopa, spiritual awareness or jñāna is a key constituent of the Buddhist path and allows the practitioner to burn away veils of ignorance and thus to see the eternal qualities of the Buddha's body of reality (the Dharmakaya): Dölpopa even wrote a prayer wishing that the Buddhas might take pity on those Buddhists who deem that the Emptiness taught by the Buddha is nothing more than a non-affirming negation and concerns only self-emptiness (the absence of essence in all things). Dölpopa writes on this point: Dölpopa also wrote a commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāga. Influence Dölpopa found a strong supporter and advocate in the later Jonangpa lama, Taranatha, who was keen to spread Dölpopa's ideas. Cyrus Stearns comments on this: Suppression The entire corpus of Dölpopa's writings was completely suppressed by the dominant Gelug school for several hundred years, for both doctrinal and political reasons. The doctrinal reason was his approach to the Buddhist concept of śūnyatā (Wylie: stong pa nyid), distinguishing "emptiness of self-nature" (Wylie: rang stong, pronounced /rangtong/) from "emptiness of other" (Wylie: gzhan stong, pronounced /shentong/). Guy Newland conveys the political intrigue of the 5th Dalai Lama against the Jonangpa, the king of gTsang, and the writings and philosophy of Dölpopa: Written works Ocean of Definitive Meaning () Great Calculation of the Doctrine that have the Significance of a Fourth Council (with auto commentary) Prayer for Birth in Sukhāvatī (bDe ba can du skye ba ’dzin pa’i smon lam) An Official Document of the King, the Spontaneously Present Dharmakāya A General Commentary on all Profound Sutra and Tantra Teachings: Entitled, "Knowing One, All is Liberated" Buddha Nature’s Auspiciousness The Great Praise of Shambhala Seizing the Crucial Point An Instruction to Lhaje Tsultrim O In Praise of the Eight Siddhas Praise to the Mahasiddha Shavaripa Mountain Doctrine, Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Final Unique Quintessential Instructions. Translation: Jeffrey Hopkins (2017), Mountain Doctrine: Tibet's Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha Matrix, Shambhala Dolpopa's complete