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—Yogācāra 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 Sönam Senggé (1429–1489), and offers both a learned summary of a historical controversy and a modern commentary on this vital debate.
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Is Reality beyond Good and Evil?
Tibetan Buddhist Inquiry into the Ultimate Virtue
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Is Reality beyond Good and Evil?
Tibetan Buddhist Inquiry into the Ultimate Virtue
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BuddhismTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- An Introduction: Ultimate, Virtue, Ultimate Virtue
- 1. Tibetan Virtuosi Positions Compared: Four Approaches to the Ultimate Virtue
- 2. Virtual Ambivalence: Indian Textual Background
- 3. The Ultimate Is a Virtue Worth Dedicating: Dorjé Sherap on Jikten Gönpo’s Teachings
- 4. The Ultimate Is Not a Virtue Unless You Do Not Mean It: Sakya Pandita’s Objections
- 5. Admiring Your Virtues, I Have Questions to Ask: Shakya Chokden’s Inquiry
- 6. What Colors Are Virtues? Gorampa vs. Shakya Chokden on Karmic Causes and Results
- 7. Is the Ultimate an Actual Virtue? Gorampa vs. Shakya Chokden on the Dharma-Sphere
- 8. Who Owns the Highest Virtue? Gorampa vs. Shakya Chokden on the Buddha-Essence
- Final Remarks: The Virtue of Contesting the Ultimate Virtue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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