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The category of Hinduism includes a complex range of philosophies, religions, movements, and cultural and intellectual experiments, all of which display paradoxically a rigid yet flexible development. Many philosophical themes have been dealt with in Hinduism, such as the immanence and transcendence of the world and God, but its general contribution to world philosophy lies, arguably, in the zone of ontology, a subject‐theme explicitly marked by a preoccupation with taxonomies and definitions which investigate the lowermost bedrock of reality seen as either essentialist (Advaita Vedānta), pluralistic (Vaiśeṣika), or simply empty (Buddhist Madhyamaka). Many systems have developed under the label of Hinduism, but these can be roughly classified in at least two groups – physicalist and mentalist – depending on their ontological standpoint.

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