Review of Yaroslav Komarovski’s: «Visions of Unity. The Golden Paṇḍita Shakya Chokden’s New Interpretation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka». Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. xii+452 p.

Abstract

The book written by Yaroslav Komarovski, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, is the first systematic discussion of the views of the innovative Tibetan Buddhist
thinker Shakya Chokden (1428–1507) on the two major systems of Mahāyāna Buddhism – Yogācāra
and Madhyamaka. Too bold for its time, Shakya Chokden’s thought was buried in oblivion, all 24
volumes of his work becoming available only in the 1970s.