Synopsis Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions represents a revised version of a series of lectures delivered at the College de France in December 1998. it is followed by Pierre Abelard’s Tractatus de Intellectibus, rendered into English during the author’s Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. The publication of these essays coincides with the International Conference on Pierre Abelard a l’aube des Universities, at the University of Nantes, to celebrate the nine-hundredth birth anniversary of the French Philosopher.