What Part of ‘Not’ Don’t We Understand?

Many important philosophical issues hang on the concept of negation. This seems to be true as much of eastern philosophy as of Western, though the issues are often different in each tradition. The paper explores a few of the eastern issues from among those that have been discussed by Shaw. While most of these seem on the face of it to be of concern exclusively to eastern philosophers, some at least have (perhaps surprising) resonances in western traditions.