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Author: Yaroslav Komarovski (Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 20.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 13.70cm
Weight: 0.236kg
ISBN: 9780190244903
ISBN 10: 0190244909
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 16 July 2015
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
It is hard to write about mystical experience. One must talk about the ineffable and confront a complex debate regarding the possibility of doing so. It is also hard to write about Tibetan literature on non-conceptual experience and direct realization. It requires sophisticated philological skills and mastery of a difficult literature. Komarovski succeeds admirably in these tasks, explaining Tibetan debates regarding unmediated experience with great clarity, in conversation with contemporary theory. --Jay L Garfield, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College
It is hard to write about mystical experience. One must talk about the ineffable and confront a complex debate regarding the possibility of doing so. It is also hard to write about Tibetan literature on non-conceptual experience and direct realization. It requires sophisticated philological skills and mastery of a difficult literature. Komarovski succeeds admirably in these tasks, explaining Tibetan debates regarding unmediated experience with great clarity, in conversation with contemporary theory. * Jay L Garfield, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College * Riveting, informed and adventurous, Yaroslav Komarovski's reflections on mystical practice and polemic in Tibet makes a distinctive and important contribution to the study of Tibetan mysticism as well as mysticism across cultures. Drawing on contemplative and philosophical texts, he brings classical Tibetan voices right into contemporary Western debates on mysticism, especially regarding the possibility of unmediated experience. Never reductive, always rigorous and dynamically engaged, this book offers genuinely new insights for Buddhists, Buddhist scholars, and researchers on the cross-cultural dynamics within and between religious-mystical trajectories. * Anne Carolyn Klein, Rice University and Dawn Mountain, Translator/Compiler of Strand of Jewels: My Teachers' Essential Guidance on Dzogchen by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche *
It is hard to write about mystical experience. One must talk about the ineffable and confront a complex debate regarding the possibility of doing so. It is also hard to write about Tibetan literature on non-conceptual experience and direct realization. It requires sophisticated philological skills and mastery of a difficult literature. Komarovski succeeds admirably in these tasks, explaining Tibetan debates regarding unmediated experience with great clarity, in conversation with contemporary theory. * Jay L Garfield, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College *
It is hard to write about mystical experience. One must talk about the ineffable and confront a complex debate regarding the possibility of doing so. It is also hard to write about Tibetan literature on non-conceptual experience and direct realization. It requires sophisticated philological skills and mastery of a difficult literature. Komarovski succeeds admirably in these tasks, explaining Tibetan debates regarding unmediated experience with great clarity, in conversation with contemporary theory. --Jay L Garfield, Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College Komarovski's treatment of the Tibetan Buddhist materials is methodical and intelligent, his presentation of scholarship on the Geluk and Sakya schools enhanced by an exceptionally clear prose style. -- L. Harrington, CHOICE
Author Information
Yaroslav Komarovski is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
