On Being and What There Is

Pages: 311About the Book"It is a comprehensive study of some of the most difficult and poorly understood-yet central-issues of classical Indian philosophy. It covers an amazingly broad range of texts, explaining and analyzing some.materials that has never been studied. It offers a synthetic picture of Vaisesika ontology and convincingly explicted its -genius'. "No one has ever explained the concepts of substance, being, and universal in Vaisesika as comprehensively and accurately as Halbfass has done. No one has ever fccussed on "the conceptualization of being', as he has done here. Nor has anyone ever analyzed the writings ofVyomsiva, Sridhara, and Udayana as thoroughly and completely. No one has brought in the rich Jaina materials to this extent. "To me, it is fascinating - one of the best books on Indian Philosophy I have ever read. It is splendid work of constructive scholarship, an authoritative source of information about Indian philosophy that will be consulted for many years to come. " John Taber, University, of New Mexico. Albuquerque"This work is characteristic of the kind of scholarship we have come to expect from Halbfass-learned, Insightful, and Comprehensive. and authoritative: Richard W. Lariviere. University of Texas I strongly believe this is going to be a most valuable addition to the literature on Vaisesika. It will also be a much needed text for courses on Indian Philosophy at undergraduate and graduate levels." J.N. Mohanty, Temple University "This is undoubtedly an insightful work from the pen of an outstanding scholar; it is extremely interesting, rich in ideas and arguments, and thoroughly documented." D.P. Chattopadhyaya, Jadavpur University About the AuthorWilhelm Halbfass is Professor of Indian Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of India and Europe: An