Publications | Roy Tzohar | Buddhist & Indian Philosophy

Selected Publications

Books

A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor

Oxford University Press, 2018

Winner of the 2018 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhist Studies.

Here are the book symposium at UC Berkeley and some reviews:

Landry, Nelson. 2022. Religious Studies Review 48, no. 157-58.

Tomlinson, Davey K. 2020. The Journal of Religion. 00:2, 292-294.

Payne, Richard K. 2020. Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies. Number 15.

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Emotions in Classical Indian Thought

Co-edited with Maria Heim, Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi. Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy Series, 2021

“This Handbook is a splendid collection of essays by scholars well-established and some still early in their careers. Resisting the habit of fitting Indian understandings of experience into old or new theories imported from the West, the volume's thirteen essays go deep into South Asia's Sanskrit and vernacular traditions to find and…

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Guest Edited Journal Special Issues

“The Buddhist Notion of Intersubjectivity”

co-edited with Jake Davis. Sophia, Vol. 58, no.2, 2019. Springer

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“Reading Aśvaghoṣa across Boundaries”

Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 47, no. 2, April 2019: 187-404. Springer

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Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“If It (Ultimately) Makes You Happy It Can’t Be That Bad: Separation (viprayoga) in Aśvaghoṣa’s Life of the Buddha”

Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. New York: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2024, 5

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“A Buddhist Mahāyāna Account of the Coming into Being of Language: The Descent into Laṅkā Scripture (Laṅkāvatārasūtra)”

In Thinking in Many Tongues: Forms of Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. A Reader. ed, Dagmar Schafer, Glenn Most, and Marten Saarela. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill. 2023.

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“Buddhist Etymologies from First-Millennium India and China: Works by Vasubandhu, Sthiramati, and Paramārtha (excerpts)”

In Thinking in Many Tongues. Forms of Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship. A Reader, ed. Dagmar Schafer, Glenn Most, and Marten Saarela.Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill. 2023

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“Sthiramati: A Yogācāra Commentator and Innovator”

Co-authored with Jowita Kramer. InThe Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy , ed. William Edelglass, Sara McClintock, and Pierre-Julien Harter. London: Routledge, 2022

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“How Does it Feel to be on Your Own: Solitude (viveka) in Aśvaghoṣa’s Saundarananda”

In Emotions in Classical Indian Thought, ed. Maria Heim,Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi, and Roy Tzohar. Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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"Turning Earth into Gold: The Early Yogācāra Understanding of Experience Following Non-Conceptual Knowledge"

In Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness: Tradition and Dialogue, ed. Mark Siderits, Ching Keng, and John Spackman. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 2020.

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"Contemporary Non-Conceptualism, Conceptual Inclusivism, and the Yogācāra View of Language Use as Skillful Action"

Philosophy East and West 70 (2020, 3):638-660.

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"Buddhist and Indian Philosophy in Israel and Palestine"

"Buddhist and Indian Philosophy in Israel and Palestine." In "Buddhist Philosophy Worldwide: Perspectives and Programs," guest ed. Rafal Stapien, American Philosophical Association (APA) Studies: Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies .18, no. 2 (2019): 8-13.

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"Reading Aśvaghoṣa Across Boundaries: An Introduction"

Journal of Indian Philosophy 47, no. 2 (2019): 187-94. Springer

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"A Tree in Bloom or a Tree Stripped Bare: Ways of Seeing in Aśvaghoṣa’s Life of the Buddha"

Journal of Indian Philosophy 47, no. 2 (2019): 313-26. Springer

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"The Buddhist Philosophical Conception of Intersubjectivity: An Introduction"

In "The Buddhist notion of Intersubjectivity", guest ed. Roy Tzohar and Jake Davis. Sophia 58 no. 1 (2019):57-60. Springer.

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"Thoughts on the Early Indian Yogācāra Understanding of Āgama- Pramāṇa"

In “There in only ‘Philosophy:’ The case of Testimony,” ed. Elisa Freschi. Kervan: International Journal of Afro- Asiatic Studies, 21 (2017): 261-277

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“Imagine Being a Preta: Early Indian Yogācāra Approaches to Intersubjectivity.”

Sophia 56 no.2 (2017): 337-354. Springer.

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"Does Early Yogācāra Have a Theory of Meaning and what for? The Case of Sthiramati’s Triṃśikā-bhāṣya"

Journal of Indian philosophy 45 no.1 (2016), 99-120. Springer.

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“Where the Self and Other Meet: Buddhist Approaches to Inter-Subjectivity.”

In Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics, ed. Joerg Tuske. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. 319-334.

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“Questioning the Other, Questioning Oneself: Vasubandhu’s Arguments Concerning Other Minds”

In Materialism and Immaterialism in India and the West: Varying Vistas, ed. D. P. Chattopadhyaya. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture (PHISPC) series vol. XII, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2010. 69-79

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Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Articles

Review of Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion, by Dan Arnold.

Journal of Buddhist Ethics 15 (2008), 41-47

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“Vasubandhu”

In Payne, Richard (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in "Buddhism." New York: Oxford University Press, April 2013

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