 Developed in the centuries after the Buddha (6th c. BCE), Buddhist philosophies, especially the Abhidhamma school, systematized the underlying philosophy of a body of texts that focused on human lived experience. The entities in Buddhist theory that are considered atomistic are not substances but momentary events, dharmas or dhammas: ‘the constituents of sentient experience, the irreducible “building blocks” that make up one’s world’ (Ronkin 2005, 41). These atomic particulars can be mental or physical, and have been compared to trope theories or process metaphysics in contemporary scholarship. Unlike theories of atomic substances, Buddhist atoms are not composed of multiple properties. In contrast to Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika atomists, Buddhists deny that there is an underlying substance uniting different properties like the colour and the weight of a jar (Bhaduri 1947). Atomic property-instances do not occur in isolation, any more than nouns and verbs made sense alone.