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03898aam a2200397 i 4500 001 5E1075643A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150804010056 008 150622s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014044275 020 $a 0190244909 020 $a 9780190244903 020 $a 019024495X 020 $a 9780190244958 035 $a (OCoLC)902661044 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BQ7604 $b .K76 2015 082 00 $a 294.3/4422 $2 23 084 $a REL047000 $a REL047000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Komarovski, Yaroslav, $e author. 245 10 $a Tibetan Buddhism and mystical experience / $c Yaroslav Komarovski. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xiii, 287 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "In this book, Yaroslav Komarovski argues that the Tibetan Buddhist interpretations of the realization of ultimate reality both contribute to and challenge contemporary interpretations of unmediated mystical experience. The model used by the majority of Tibetan Buddhist thinkers states that the realization of ultimate reality, while unmediated during its actual occurrence, is necessarily filtered and mediated by the conditioning contemplative processes leading to it, and Komarovski argues that therefore, in order to understand this mystical experience, one must focus on these processes, rather than on the experience itself. Komarovski also provides an in-depth comparison of seminal Tibetan Geluk thinker Tsongkhapa and his major Sakya critic Gorampa's accounts of the realization of ultimate reality, demonstrating that the differences between these two interpretations lie primarily in their conflicting descriptions of the compatible conditioning processes that lead to this realization. Komarovski maintains that Tsongkhapa and Gorampa's views are virtually irreconcilable, but demonstrates that the differing processes outlined by these two thinkers are equally effective in terms of actually attaining the realization of ultimate reality. Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience speaks to the plurality of mystical experience, perhaps even suggesting that the diversity of mystical experience is one of its primary features"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "This book links Tibetan Buddhist polemics regarding the realization of ultimate reality with contemporary debates around mystical experience. Komarovski demonstrates how the realization of reality, as understood by Tibetan thinkers, both resembles and challenges the idea of unmediated mystical experience"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The Mystical Panorama -- Setting the Stage -- What does Tibetan Buddhism have to do with mysticism and experience? -- Glancing at the issue of (un)mediated mystical experience -- Chapter Two: The Mind Dimension -- Mind models -- Conceptuality and direct perception -- The problem with pure consciousness -- Chapter Three: The Path Dimension -- Path models -- Mediations: whither and when -- Negations and deconstructions -- Chapter Four: Mystical Complexities -- A few words about ineffability -- Mystical experiences and polemics -- Mystical commonalities -- Chapter Five: Contesting the Ultimate Experience -- The Geluk position -- The Sakya position -- Contemplating differences differently -- Conclusion and Final Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 650 0 $a Tantric Buddhism $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Mysticism. 650 0 $a Buddhist philosophy. 650 7 $a RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / Mysticism. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210022738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E1075643A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search