{"product_id":"is-reality-beyond-good-and-yaroslav-komarovski-9780813952161","title":"Is Reality Beyond Good and Evil?: Tibetan Buddhist Inquiry Into the Ultimate Virtue","description":"\u003cb\u003eIlluminates the debate on the nature of virtue and ultimate reality\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 S?nam Sengg? (1429-1489), and offers both a learned summary of a historical controversy and a modern commentary on this vital debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yaroslav Komarovski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813952166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813952161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Yaroslav Komarovski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45897902227711,"sku":"9780813952161","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa698794-2aef-4633-ae02-d6d13f5b45be.jpg?v=1721375025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/is-reality-beyond-good-and-yaroslav-komarovski-9780813952161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}