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9780813952154 Academic Inspection Copy

Is Reality beyond Good and Evil?

Tibetan Buddhist Inquiry into the Ultimate Virtue
  • ISBN-13: 9780813952154
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
  • By Yaroslav Komarovski
  • Price: AUD $296.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/01/2025
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Tibetan Buddhism [HREX]
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Illuminates the debate on the nature of virtue and ultimate reality Tibetan Buddhist thinkers agree that, on the most fundamental level, our nature is pure. What exactly that ultimate nature is, however, remains the subject of debate. Yaroslav Komarovski's new book appraises how divergent understandings of the ultimate nature by Tibetan thinkers, including ideas informed by two conflicting yet complementary systems of Buddhist thought-Yogacara and Madhyamaka-affect their diverse approaches to understanding virtue, and how their understandings of virtue in turn relate to their approaches to the Buddhist thought and practice. Tracing the origins of the polemics on ultimate virtue back to the Indian texts and writings of early Tibetan thinkers, Komarovski focuses chiefly on the works of the two seminal thinkers of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, Serdok Penchen Shakya Chokden (1428-1507) and Gowo Rapjampa SOEnam SenggE (1429-1489), and offers both a learned summary of a historical controversy and a modern commentary on this vital debate.
Yaroslav Komarovski is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln and the author of Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience, Radiant Emptiness: Three Seminal Works by the Golden Pa??ita Shakya Chokden, and Visions of Unity: The Golden Pa??ita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogacara and Madhyamaka.
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