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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher. "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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