TY - BOOK AU - King,Richard TI - Indian philosophy: an introduction to Hindu and Buddhist thought SN - 0878407561 AV - B131 .K49 1999 U1 - ARCH YNDC 181.4 K52I 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Georgetown University Press KW - Philosophy, Indic N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-254) and index; India and the history of philosophy -- Can philosophy be Indian? -- The varieties of Hindu philosophy -- Buddhist philosophy in India -- Ontology: what really exists? -- Epistemology: how do we know what we know? -- Perception: do we see things as they are? -- Consciousness and the body: what are we? -- Creation and causality: where do we come from? -- Philosophy in a post-colonial world N2 - Introduces the main schools of Hindu and Buddhist thought, emphasizing the living history of interaction and debate between the various traditions, while outlining the broad spectrum of Indian philosophical schools and questioning prevailing assumptions about the "mythical," ahistorical, and "theological" nature of Indian thought ER -