Contents: Editor's note. Preface. Inaugural address/M.G. Dhadphale. Keynote address/S.R. Bhatt. Presidential address/S.K. Somaiya. Special remarks/Kanchana Mahadevan. Valiedictory address/Meena V. Talim. 1. Universe is a seamless integrated whole: a positive exposition of Pratiyasamutpada/B.V.S. Bhanusree. 2. The Buddhist epistemology of Pratiyasamutpada and Sambandha Pariksa of Dharmakirti/Buddhadev Bhattacharya. 3. Paticcasamuppadam - Bhavacakkam to Dhammacakkam/Yojana Bhagat. 4. Paticcasamuppada explained in the light of Vipassana/Angraj Chaudhary. 5. Paticcasamuppada and Grammar/M.A. Deokar. 6. Pratityasamutpada and Dvadasanidana : some conceptual issues/Pradeep P. Gokhale. 7. The Buddhist logic of Pratityasamutpada/V.N. Jha. 8. From causation to transformation/Shubhada Joshi. 9. The dialectic of Pratiyasamutpada and the dialectic of Anekanta : a comparison/Meenal Katarnikar. 10. Dependent origination (Paticcasamuppada) in Abhidhamma philosophy/Bimalendra Kumar. 11. Dependent origination : the way of independent Buddha/Ujjwal Kumar. 12. Samsara accords pratityasamutpada/S.K. Pathak. 13. The twelve-link formula : defining human personality/Hari Shankar Prasad.  14. Buddha as an incarnation of Visnu in Samskrit literature/C.S. Radhakrishnan. 15. The doctrine of Pratitysamputpada in the spiritual metaphysics of Yogacara - Vijnanavada/V.V.S. Saibaba. 16. Theory of causation in Buddhism and empiricism/Bashistha Narayan Sinha. 17. Realisation of the law of paticcasamuppada/Sharda Sanghavi. 18. Pratityasamutpada : a riddle in neo-Buddhism/Sharmila Virkar.