On Being and What There Is: Classical Vaisesika and the History of Indian Ontology

Preface 1 Introduction: The Question of Being 2 The Question of Being in India: General HistoricalPerspectives 3 Genesis, Enumeration, and the Question of Being 4 The Vaisesika Categories: An Introductory Survey 5 The Vaisesika Concept of Substance 6 The Vaisesika Concept of Guna and the Problem ofUniversals 7 The Conceptualization of Being in Classical Vaisesika 8 Genesis and Temporal Existence in Early and Classical Vaisesika 9 The Vaisesika Concept of Time 10 Epilogue Appendix 1: Selected Ontological Texts Appendix 2: The Concept of Visesa and the Name of the Vaisesika System Glossary: Ontological Terms in Classical Vaisesika Abbreviations Index