Komarovski, Y.

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Yaroslav
LastName / namelast	Komarovski
namemiddle	Lvovich
bio	Yaroslav Komarovski (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2007) teaches and conducts research on Asian religions, in particular Tibetan Buddhism. His research focuses on Madhyamaka and Yogācāra interpretations of the nature of reality and related epistemological, philosophical, and contemplative issues. In particular, he focuses on writings of a seminal Tibetan Buddhist thinker Shakya Chokden (1428–1507) who articulated a startlingly new reconsideration of the core areas of Buddhist thought and practice, such as epistemology, ethics, tantric rituals, and the relationship between philosophy and contemplation. Prior to his doctoral training at the University of Virginia, Komarovski studied Buddhism in several Tibetan monastic institutions of higher learning in India and Nepal for nine years, and for more than fifteen years worked as a translator and interpreter from Tibetan. Among his publications are the manuscript Visions of Unity: The Golden Paṇḍita Shakya Chokden’s New Interpretation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2011); as well as “From the Three Natures to the Two Natures: On a Fluid Approach to the Two Versions of Other- Emptiness from 15th Century Tibet,” Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, forthcoming in 2014; “Buddhist Contributions to the Question of (Un)mediated Mystical Experience,” Sophia, vol. 51, no. 1 (2012): 87-115; and “Reburying the Treasure—Maintaining the Continuity: Two Texts by Śākya Mchog Ldan on the Buddha-Essence,” Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 34, no. 6 (2006): 521-570. Faculty Page at Nebraska-Lincoln Video of a presentation on Madhyamaka & Methodology: A Symposium on Buddhist Theory and Method Reburying the Treasure—Maintaining the Continuity: Two Texts by Śakya Chokden on the Buddha-Essence
affiliation	University of Nebraska–Lincoln
phduniversity	University of Virginia
education	Doctor of Philosophy Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia, 2007 Master of Arts, University of Virginia, 2004 Bachelor of Arts, International Academy of Psychology, Moscow, Russia, 1999
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Department of Classics and Religious Studies

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

240 Andrews Hall

Lincoln, NE 68588-0337

(402) 472-2420

ykomarovski2@unlnotes.unl.edu

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).