Zukunftsphilologie
2013/ 2014
Roy Tzohar
Toward a Framework for Intertextual Analysis of Indian Buddhist Sastra: The Yogacara Theory of Metaphor as a Case Study
Roy Tzohar is Assistant Professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD (with Distinction) from the Religion Department at Columbia University (New York, 2011), and an MA (summa cum laude) in philosophy from Tel Aviv University’s Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students. During his Zukunftsphilologie fellowship Roy Tzohar will expand upon his dissertation, dealing with the philosophical role and meaning of figurative language (upacāra) in early Indian Sanskrit philosophical discourse, taking the Buddhist Yogācāra school’s theory of metaphor as a case study.
*affiliated Zunkunftsphilologie Fellow
Toward a Framework for Intertextual Analysis of Indian Buddhist Sastra: The Yogacara Theory of Metaphor as a Case Study
During the proposed research Roy Tzohar will focus on developing the theoretical framework for the intertextual analysis of these materials, substantiating the need for an interrelated analysis of the literary and the philosophical within Buddhist texts, complemented by a diachronic perspective provided by the history of ideas. This work will be integrated into his more comprehensive, ongoing research project about early Yogācāra thought, for which Roy Tzohar has received the Marie Curie IRG fellowship from the EU (CORDIS) and which will culminate in a book manuscript.
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