Like the Hindus and Jains, the Buddhists were able to integrate a theory of atomism with their logical presuppositions.
Atoms that appear to endure are, in fact, a series of momentary events that ascend and fall in rapid succession and in accordance with causal relations.
Yet the material compounds that consist of these atoms are real, if only in the minimal, phenomenological sense.
Indian Buddhist philosophers, including Dharmakirti and Dignāga, considered atoms to be point-sized, durationless, and made of energy.
Both systems, therefore, agree in denying the objective reality of the categories of Substance and Quality, ... and of the relation of Inference uniting them.