anattavada the Buddhist doctrine of no-soul, attributed to the Buddha (sixth century B.C.). The Buddha’s idea of dependent origination (pratityasamutpada) leads to a process ontology of change where nothing is absolute, permanent, or substantive. Accordingly, the Buddha taught that a person’s self consists of a bundle of fleeting impressions, analyzed into five groups (skandhas), rather than a substantive entity called the ‘soul.’ The Buddha’s method of introspection to find out whether we can be aware of a soullike substance inside us is remarkably similar to David Hume’s. The Hindu philosophical schools objected to anattavada because they thought it could not satisfactorily explain such issues as personal identity, moral responsibility and karma, and rebirth. D.K.C.