The volume is an introduction to one of the key concepts in Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, namely the object of cognition. The volume provides an overview of the notion of cognizable objects in Sa skya Pandita (1182-1251), a short summary of Western research on that concept, followed by an edited translation of the first chapter of his fundamental work Tshad ma rigs gter together with the canonical commentary by Go rams pa (1429-1489). Both texts are translated into a European language for the first time.


Cognizable Object in Sa skya Pandita:An edition and annotated translation of the first chapter of Tshad ma rigs gter by Sa skya Pandita and the first chapter of Tshad ma rigs pa'i gter gyi don gsal bar byed pa by Go rams pa , Artur Przybyslawski, Jagiellonian University Press, Paperback, 2017, 159 pages, $45.00

* Artur Przybyslawski is affiliated with the Center of Comparative Studies of Civilizations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. A specialist in Buddhist and Greek philosophy, he is the author of Coincidentia oppositorum (2004), Buddyjska filozofia pustki (2009), and Buddyjska epistemologia Tybetu (2017) and has translated numerous classical Tibetan texts and English philosophical texts into Polish.

* Sakya Pandita (1182-1251)--a renowned scholar and Tibetan statesman staved off a Mongolian invasion by converting Emperor Godan to Buddhism.