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Prof. Dr hab. Artur Przybysławski

Prof. Dr hab. Artur Przybysławski

e-mail: artur.przybyslawski@uj.edu.pl

Lecturer of Tibetan language, Buddhist and European philosophy, translator (from Tibetan, English, German). PhD: The Thought of Thales and Heraclitus in philosophy of Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger. Habilitation: Buddhist philosophy of emptiness. Stipendist of Foundation for Polish Science; awarded by Polish Association of Translators. Author of two novels Pan Profesor (Gdańsk Book Award 2019) and Pana Profesora dziennik sekretny.

Academic interests

  • Tibetan Buddhist philosophy,
  • Tibetan culture,
  • Ancien Greek philosophy,
  • Rhetoric,
  • Literature and theory of literature.

Selected publications

  • 2023, Thales and the Beginnings of European Reflection, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang, pp. 182.
  • 2021, Short Dorjé Chang Mahāmudrā Invocation by Bängar Jampäl Zangpo with commentaries by 8th Karmapa Mikyö Dorjé, Karma Chagmé,15th Karmapa Khakhyab Dorjé, Rinchen Dargyä, Gänpo Tshepäl and life-story of the author by 8th Karmapa Mikyö Dorjé, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 164.
  • 2021, Remarks on the term tshad ma’i skyes bu and the notion of novelty of valid cognition in the bKa’ brgyud tradition, “Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines”, no. 61, Octobre, pp. 323-328.
  • 2019, III Karmapa Rangdźung Dordźe, V Szamar Konczog Jenlag, Lodro Thaje, XV Karmapa Khakhjab Dordźe, Siastra rozróżniająca świadomość uwarunkowaną i świadomość pierwotną wraz z komentarzami [Śastra distinguishing conditioned consciousness from primordial consciousness with commentaries], Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 244.
  • 2017, Cognizable Object in Sa skya Pandita. Edition and annotated translation of the first chapter of Tshad ma rigs gter by Sa skya Paṇḍita and the first chapter of Tshad ma rigs pa’i gter gyi don gsal bar byed pa by Go rams pa, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 164.
  • 2017, Buddyjska epistemologia Tybetu. Studia i przekłady [Buddhist epistemology of Tibet. Studies and translations], Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 224.
  • 2016, States of non-cognizing mind in Tshad ma rigs gter According to Go rams pa, „Journal of Indian Philosophy“ 44, pp. 393-410.
  • 2016, Podstawy teorii wnioskowania buddyjskiej epistemologii Tybetu [Foundations of theory of inference in Buddhist epistemology of Tibet], „Kwartalnik Filozoficzny” 4, pp. 121-140.
  • 2015, Remarks on the Misuse of the Term “Ontology” in Madhyamaka Studies, “The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture” 16 (4), pp. 113-122.
  • 2009, Buddyjska filozofia pustki [Buddhist philosophy of emptiness], Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, pp. 280.

Research projects

  • 2017, translation and edition of bla ma rgyang 'bod collection of texts (Karma Guen Foundation Grant in International Institute of Asian and Tibetan Studies).
  • 2022, 84000 – Translating the words of the Buddha (Grant 2022-GA-169).

Other achievements

  • Publication of the novel Pana Profesora dziennik sekretny with the financial support of Krakow UNESCO City of Literature.
  • Award in the Literary Contest of the City of Gdańsk 2019 for the novel Pan Profesor.
  • 1998 - stipend of the Foundation for Polish Science.
  • 1999 – Award of Polish Association of Translators for the translation of The last days of Immanuel Kant by Thomas de Quincey.
  • Popularisation of philosophy: Emptiness is Joy, or Buddhist Philosophy for Those Who Like to Laugh, Velez-Malaga: ITAS 2016, pp. 164, (translated also in German, Italian and Russian). The World is only mind, or Buddhist Philosophy for Those Who Like to Laugh, Velez-Malaga: ITAS 2022, pp. 160.