Roy Tzohar is a Senior Lecturer in the East and South Asian studies Department at Tel Aviv University.

The content of this book is well structured, while the writing is succinct and erudite. This is a seminal work in the study of YogÄcÄra thought, as well as an important addition to the fields of Indian philosophy, philosophy of language, and, more broadly, in Buddhist studies.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction1. What do Buddhists have to say on figurative language? 2. A bit of methodology: on determining the relevant textual field and handling intertextual-borrowing.3. An Outline PART 1 Chapter IMetaphor as Absence:The case of the Early Nyaya and Mimamsa. Chapter IIMetaphor as Perceptual Illusion: Figurative Meaning in Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya PART 2 Chapter IIIIt's a Bear... No, It's a Man... No, it's a Metaphor! Asanga on the Proliferation of Figures Chapter IVThe Seeds of the Pan-Figurative View:Metaphor in Other Buddhist Sources PART 3 Chapter VWhat It All Comes Down To: Sthiramati's Pan-Metaphorical Claim and Its Implications Chapter VIConversing With a Buddha:The Yogacara Conception of Linguistic and Perceptual Meaningas a Means for Overcoming Incommensurability Conclusion:The Alterity of Metaphor Appendix A:Translation and exposition of Vakyapadiya 2.250-256 Appendix B:A Running translation of the Vakyapadiya 2.285-2.297 References Index

Roy Tzohar is a Senior Lecturer in the East and South Asian studies Department at Tel Aviv University.

The content of this book is well structured, while the writing is succinct and erudite. This is a seminal work in the study of YogÄcÄra thought, as well as an important addition to the fields of Indian philosophy, philosophy of language, and, more broadly, in Buddhist studies.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction1. What do Buddhists have to say on figurative language? 2. A bit of methodology: on determining the relevant textual field and handling intertextual-borrowing.3. An Outline PART 1 Chapter IMetaphor as Absence:The case of the Early Nyaya and Mimamsa. Chapter IIMetaphor as Perceptual Illusion: Figurative Meaning in Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya PART 2 Chapter IIIIt's a Bear... No, It's a Man... No, it's a Metaphor! Asanga on the Proliferation of Figures Chapter IVThe Seeds of the Pan-Figurative View:Metaphor in Other Buddhist Sources PART 3 Chapter VWhat It All Comes Down To: Sthiramati's Pan-Metaphorical Claim and Its Implications Chapter VIConversing With a Buddha:The Yogacara Conception of Linguistic and Perceptual Meaningas a Means for Overcoming Incommensurability Conclusion:The Alterity of Metaphor Appendix A:Translation and exposition of Vakyapadiya 2.250-256 Appendix B:A Running translation of the Vakyapadiya 2.285-2.297 References Index