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Episode 5: A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor and cross-cultural philosophy with Dr. Roy Tzohar

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African(a) and South Asian Philosophies
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In this episode, MPhil Buddhist Studies students Cody Fuller and alicehankwinham interview Professor Tzohar (associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University).
They interview him about his landmark work in Buddhist philosophy of language, A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor (OUP 2018). They talk about compelling issues in cross-cultural hermeneutics, ethics, and philosophy of language that arise directly from the research covered in the book developing an early Indian philosophical theory of metaphor –little of the likes which exists in contemporary analytic philosophy today. We explore the implications of 6th-century Indian scholar Sthiramati’s claim that all language in figurative – how does this project affect our methodological approaches to and understanding of early Indian discourse and practice? How might this challenge Euro-American contemporary notions of ‘Realism’ and nuance understandings of its philosophies of language and perception? How might the work help us make sense of apparent contradictions in early Indian texts about what it means to be a bodhisattva committed to liberating all sentient beings from suffering and what possibilities does this renewed understanding offer to our own ethical reflection today? Join us to refresh our engagement with the possibilities of ‘non-conceptual awareness’ and more.

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Series
African(a) and South Asian Philosophies
People
Cody Fuller
alicehankwinham
Roy Tzohar
Keywords
philosophy
cross-cultural
global
Indian philosophy
South Asian
theology
religion
morality
spirituality
religious experience
epistemology
hermeneutics
philosophy of language
sanskrit
academia
philology
methodology
realism
metaphor
genealogy
syncretic
Yogacara
Madhyamaka
hinduism
Buddhism
intertextuality
analytic philosophy
ethics
text-criticism
concepts
upacāra
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 04/11/2021
Duration: 02:07:09

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