My principal academic interests concern the relations between metaphysics, philosophy of language and ethics in western and Indian philosophy. My PhD thesis focuses on the Nietzschean and Buddhist notions of 'great-health'. I begin with the genesis of Nietzsche's ideas in and through his encounter with Indian Buddhism and then turn to some of the fundamental psychological and moral issues which he brings up. What, I ask, may remain of ethics after the myth of transcendence is debunked?