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**{{i|1. Differences between Alīkākāravāda and Satyākāravāda |157}}
 
**{{i|1. Differences between Alīkākāravāda and Satyākāravāda |157}}
 
**{{i|2. The Heart of the Matter: Probing the Alīkākāravāda/ Niḥsvabhāvavāda Distinction |168}}
 
**{{i|2. The Heart of the Matter: Probing the Alīkākāravāda/ Niḥsvabhāvavāda Distinction |168}}
**{{i|3. A New Look at the Old Origins: Distinctions of Madhyamaka Stemming from Interpretations of the Second and Third Dharmacakras |183}}
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**{{i|3. A New Look at the Old Origins: Distinctions of Madhyamaka Stemming<br>from Interpretations of the Second and Third Dharmacakras |183}}
 
***{{i|Looking at the Second and Third Dharmacakras through the Eyes of the Madhyamaka Founders |183}}
 
***{{i|Looking at the Second and Third Dharmacakras through the Eyes of the Madhyamaka Founders |183}}
 
***{{i|Position of Alīkākāravāda |186}}
 
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A detailed study of controversial Tibetan Buddhist thinker Śākya Chokden, a fifteenth-century Sakya philosopher who wrote extensively on Yogācāra and Madhyamaka in an attempt to synthesize the two, this book presents Yaroslav Komarovski's dissertation research. Komarovski skillfully places Śākya Chokden in a long history of Yogācāra-Madhyamaka syntheses, a tradition that Śākya Chokden accused Tsongkhapa of abandoning in his radical interpretation of Candrakīrti and rejection of all positive-language doctrine. Although his writings were recognized for their brilliance, his criticisms of Tsongkhapa and Sakya Paṇḍita, and his qualified acceptance of "other-emptiness" (gzhan stong), meant that he was almost entirely rejected by his peers. In dense but readable prose Komarovski explains how Śākya Chokden reclassified elements of each (the Satyākāravāda doctrine of the Yogācāra, and the Prasaṅgika branch of the Madhyamaka) as true Madhyamaka; each was capable of bringing people to a realization of the ultimate, one with positive language and the other with negative.

Citation Komarovski, Yaroslav. Visions of Unity: The Golden Paṇḍita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.