Balslev, Anindita N.

A study of time in Indian philosophy/ Anindita N. Balslev - 3rd. ed. - Delhi : MBP, 2009. - viii,200p. ; 25cm.

I i On the reality of absolute time—the Nyaya-Vaisesika view
(ii) An exchange regarding the idea of present time
(vartamana kdld)
(iii) Is time perceived or inferred?—a debate amongst the
Indian realists
II (i) Time as aspect of concrete becoming—the Shikhya view
(ii) Time as instant'—the Yoga view
(iii) Saiikhya and Vaisesika on time—a comparative note
III (i) On time as appearance—the Advaita Vedanta appraisal
(ii) On refutation of the reality of time
(iii) Being as timeless in Advaita Vedanta
IV (i) Time injainism
(ii) The Jaina challenge to the Nyaya-Vaisesika conception
of singular, ubiquitous time
V (i) The Buddhist idea of instantaneous being
(ii) Some internal differences regarding the doctrine of
momentariness within the Buddhist tradition
(iii) Controversies centering on the Buddhist doctrine of
momentariness (ksanikavMa)
(iv) Annihilation and time—a Nyaya-Buddhist controversy
VI A note on the problem of time in the perspective of philosophy
of language and the idea of the timeless as inexpressible
VII An overall view of time in Indian philosophy
(i) Time and consciousness
(ii) A comparative note on the concept of instant (ksana)
(iii) The views about time and the problem of change
(iv) Being and time
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Vin (i) The problem of time—an inter cultural perspective
(ii) A note on the cyclic and the linear notions of time
(iii) Some parallel ideas in the investigation on time in
Western philosophy
(iv) The timeless and the temporal—^paradox and predicament
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