CONTENTS: Foreword, Preface, Introduction, 1. Aham Subjectivity and the Ego: Engaging the Philosophy of Abhinavagupta-Sthaneshwar Timalsina, 2. Two Ways of Understanding Consciousness: Naturalism vs. Non-Naturalism-Ramesh C Pradhan, 3. The Concept of Atman in Nyaya Vaisesika-Raghunath Ghosh, 4. Notion of Absolute Consciousness (Whatever is of the as well as in the Absolute Sankara, Kant and Hegel)-Raghwendra Pratap Singh, 5. Consciousness: What It Is and How It Is to Be Realized (A Study in Tripura Rahasya)-Shakuntala, 6. On Sartre's Theory of Consciousness: A Phenomeno-logical Approach in 'the Transcendence of the Ego'and 'Being and Nothingness'-Akoijam Thoibisana, 7. The Problem of Alienation and Its Overcoming in Hegel-Arup Jyoti Sarma, 8. Transcendence of Subjectivity: A Contemporary Exploration of Epistemological Social Self in Neohumanism of P R Sarkar-Sindhu Poudyal, 9. The Idea of Self and Mahayana Buddhism: A Special Reference to Nagarjna's Madhyamaka-Saumya Kanti Biswas, 10. The Problematic Mind, Meditation and the Deep Structure of Consciousness: A Buddhist Perspective-Hari Shankar Prasad, 11. Physical Brain's Self-Awareness of Itself as Physical: A Zombie Who Knows that It Is Not the Real Ego or the I-P Milan Khangamcha, 12. Dhyana Bhasa or the Language of Meditative Reflection: Understanding the 'Existence' or 'Sat'-Adarasupally Nataraju. 13. Consciousness, Subjectivity and Self: A Study with Special Reference to Pancadasi-A Nataraju and Munmun Chakraborty, Index.