the significance of the Buddhist claim that the rebirth cannot be said to be the same person as the one who died. Indeed, I cited influential Buddhist scholars who have argued explicitly that the rebirth is a different person to the one that died. After reading an earlier draft of this book, one of my Buddhist friends claimed that in my treatment of the Buddhist approach to rebirth here I have misrepresented the Buddhist position. The suggestion is that (since I must know what the Buddhist position