"It ties together for the first time the two primary schools of Indian Mahayana tradition. Nagao's insights have been valued by Japanese scholars all along and only recently have Western scholars appreciated them. This offers a complete picture of his novel deliberations, showing a first-rate thinker at work." Kenneth Inada, State University of New York
Madhyamika and Yogacara, Nagao, Gadjin M., Edited, Collated and Translated by L. S. Kawamura in Collaboration with G. M. Nagao, SUNY Press, Paperback, 304 pages, $35.95

Gadjin M. Nagao is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press.

Leslie S. Kawamura is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

CONTENTS: Title
Acknowledgments		ix
Author's Preface		xi
Abbreviations		xiii
Introduction		1
1.	Buddhist Subjectivity	7
2.	An Interpretation of the Term "Samvrti " (Convention) in Buddhism	13
3.	The Bodhisattva Returns to this World	23
4.	The Silence of the Buddha and its Madhyamic Interpretation	35
5.	What Remains in Sunyata: A Yogacara Interpretation of Emptiness	51
6.	The Buddhist World View as Elucidated in the Three-nature Theory and Its Similies	61
7.	Connotations of the Word Asraya (Basis) in the Mahayana-Sutralamkara	75
8.	Usages and Meanings of Parinamana	83
9.	Tranquil Flow of Mind: An Interpretation of Upeksa	91
10.	On the Theory of Buddha Body (Buddha-kaya)	103
11.	Logic of Convertibility	123
12.	Ontology in Mahayana Buddhism	155
13.	From Madhyamika to Yogacara : An Analysis of MMK, XXIV. 18 and MV I.1-2	189
14.	Ascent and Descent: Two-Directional Activity in Buddhist Thought	201
15.	Emptiness	209
16.	Yogacara--A Reappraisal	219
Appendix--Sources of Essays		227
Notes		229
Bibliography		263
Index of Terms		273
Index of Tibetan Terms		289
Index of Chinese and Japanese Terms		291
Index of Sanskrit Terms		293