demonstrate that the Buddhist tradition found it natural to trace the consequences of views about the nature of objects and persons, and about what experience teaches, beyond the scope of what Buddhism as a religion might strictly require. There are direct realists, representational realists, and idealists, and the question arises as to whether idealism slides into solipsism. There is no way of telling what a particular religious doctrine may or may not be related to. Arguably, certain Buddhist doctrines are incompatible with certain views in contemporary physics (and Buddhist apologists have claimed that contemporary physics provides some sort of confirmation of basic Buddhist categories). There is no a priori way to limit the relationships that may come to light between apparently very diverse, and quite unrelated, issues and doctrines. See also CHINESE PHILOSOPHY , JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY , KOREAN PHILOSOPHY , META — PHYSICS , PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGIO. K.E.Y.