Conceptualizing Categories: Texts and Context in Indian Philosophy

1. Introduction.- 2. Particularity and Universality in the Philosophy of Recognition (pratyabhijña) (Gavin Flood).- 3.The Vaise?ika Self: the Norms and Agency of Life (Shalini Sinha).- 4. Later Vaise?ika: The ‘Seven Category Ontology’ Reaffirmed (Jonardon Ganeri).- 5. On sapek?a and nirapek?a in the Vaise?ikasutra (Katsunori Hirano).- 6. Categories and Principles of Vaise?ika (Subhash Kak).- 7. Taxonomical, Ritual, and Spiritual Exercises: A Heuristic Approach to the Pedagogy of the Vaise?ikasutra-s (Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette).- 8. A Romanized Transliteration of the Manuscript Of Padãrthadhamzasmzgraha Preserved in Kashimir University (Norihiko Tanaka).- 9. On What Being Is and What There Is Not: Engaging ShashiPrabha Kumar on the Vaise?ika (Purushottama Bilimoria).- 10. The Metaphysics of Similarity in Kumarila Bha??a’s Slokavarttika (Malcolm Keating).- 11. The Fallibilist Epistemology of Ga?gesa Applied to the “Gettier Problem” (Stephen Phillips).- 12. The Power of the Unseen: the Concept of ad???a in Nyaya and its Importance for Philosophy of Religion (Agnieszka Rostalska).- 13. Suffering, Death and Transcendence as Human Value (Asha Mukherjee).- 14. Essence and Difference in Indian Philosophy (Ionut Moise).- 15. Heart Meditation: Ramanuja on the Chandogya Up. 3.14.1–4. (Halina Marlewicz).- 16. Debate on the Nature of the Goddess in the Ramanuja School (Gerhard Oberhammer).- 17. On Philosophizing (Ramesh Chandra Sinha).- 18. A Critique of Sa?karacarya’s Refutation of Vijñanavada (Sujata Purkayastha).- 19. Dignaga's Criticism of the Vaise?ika Definition of Perception (pratyak?a) (Victoria Lysenko).- 20. Jayanta on Whether Recognition Refutes Momentariness (Alex Watson).- 21. A Comparative Study of the Concept of Karma and Rebirth in Hinduism and Buddhism (Arvind Sharma).- 22. Concept of Person in the Buddhist School of Thought (Rev. Samdong Rinpoche).- 23. Shadows of Buddhism in Sufism (Lokesh Chandra).- 24. Eternal Veda, Eternal Philosophy? With Special Reference to the Sarvadarsanasa?graha (Johannes Bronkhorst).- 25. Can the Vedic Doctrine of the Creative Sacrifice of Puru?a Enrich Christianity? (M. Krzysztof Byrski).- 26. The Upani?ads: a Personal Appreciation (Nicholas Kazanas).- 27. The Dharmasastric Principles of Rajadharma Advocated by the Rulers of Ancient Assam: Some Inscriptional Evidences (Manjula Devi).- 28. Yogavasi??ha Within and Beyond the Orbit of Valmiki-Ramaya?a (Uma Vaidya).- 29. One and All: ak?ára in Middle and Late Vedic (Lauren M. Bausch).- 30. Pa?ini 6.1.135 (??????????????) and Related Rules (George Cardona).- 31. Sanskrit Dictionaries in Modern European Languages and a Proposal for a New Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Oscar Pujol).