David Komito
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David Ross Komito is a Buddhist teacher and author on the subjects of Mādhyamaka
Buddhist philosophy
, meditation and the psychology of religion.
Komito received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles
, his M.A. in Religious Studies, M.S. in Counseling and Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from Indiana University
, Bloomington. He currently teaches in the Religious Studies Program at Eastern Oregon University and since 1987 has lectured at San Francisco Zen Center
and other Buddhist centers in the Western USA.
He is married to the thanka artist Kayla Komito
.
Madhyamaka
Madhyamaka refers primarily to a Mahāyāna Buddhist school of Buddhist philosophy systematized by Nāgārjuna. Nāgārjuna may have arrived at his positions from a desire to achieve a consistent exegesis of the Buddha's doctrine as recorded in the āgamas...
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy
Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology.Some scholars assert that early Buddhist philosophy did not engage in ontological or metaphysical speculation, but was based instead on empirical evidence gained by the sense organs...
, meditation and the psychology of religion.
Komito received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
, his M.A. in Religious Studies, M.S. in Counseling and Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
, Bloomington. He currently teaches in the Religious Studies Program at Eastern Oregon University and since 1987 has lectured at San Francisco Zen Center
San Francisco Zen Center
San Francisco Zen Center , is a network of affiliated Sōtō Zen practice and retreat centers in the San Francisco Bay area, comprising the City Center or Beginner's Mind Temple, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. The sangha was incorporated by Shunryu...
and other Buddhist centers in the Western USA.
He is married to the thanka artist Kayla Komito
Kayla Komito
Kayla Komito is a Tibetan thanka painter. She began showing her personal work, on the general theme of the spiritual feminine, with the San Francisco visionary artists in 1975...
.
Principal works
- 1983: "Tibetan Buddhism and Psychotherapy: a conversation with the Dalai Lama;" of Transpersonal Psychology; 1983, Vol. 15, No. 1; p. 1-11.
- 1984: "Tibetan Buddhism and Psychotherapy: Further Conversations with the Dalai Lama;" of Transpersonal Psychology; 1984, Vol. 16, No. 1; p. 1-24.
- 1987: Nagarjuna’s Seventy Stanzas: a Buddhist psychology of emptiness; translation and commentary on the Seventy stanzas on emptiness by Geshe Sonam Rinchen, Tenzin Dorjee, and David Ross Komito. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications ISBN 978-0937938393 (see 2001 for Dutch and French eds.)
- 1995: Paths and Grounds of Guhyasamaja According to Arya Nagarjuna; with commentary by Geshe Losang Tsephel; Yangchen Gawai Lodoe; translated by Tenzin Dorjee, co-translator on root text Jeremy Russell; edited by David Ross Komito and Andrew Fagan. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives ISBN 8185102945
- 2001: Boeddhistische psychologie van de leegte: de zeventig stanza's van Nagarjuna; vertaling en commentaar door Geshe Sonam Rinchen, Tenzin Dorjee en David Ross Komito. Schoten: Kunchab Publikaties ISBN 9789097481561 (see 1987 for original ed.)
- 2001: Nagarjuna: psychologie bouddhiste de la vacuité: les soixante-dix versets sur la vacuité; traduction et commentaire par Guéshé Sonam Rintchen, Tendzin Dordjé et David Ross Komito; traduit de l'américain par Catherine Saint-Guily. Schoten: Kunchab Publications ISBN 9789074815502 (see 1987 for original ed.)
- 2003: Rehearsing Enlightenment: a retreat in the Buddhist Himalayas. VSF Publications ISBN 0974730009