In the last stages of the chapter, Vasubandhu's non-Buddhist believer in a permanent self proposes several potential counter-arguments.
Buddhists believe in rebirth.
Joining the tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the world are hundreds of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, non-believers, and Muslims from various sects of Sunni and Shia Islam.
As a Buddhist and a believer in karma, Sunee accounts for her sorrowful state (at least out loud, to the Western journalist whose reasons for asking seem to flummox her) as payback for something she did in a past life.
Among them, Christians donated more than Buddhist and folk believers on average.
Scalia is willing to disregard -- his term -- not only nonbelievers but also Buddhist and Hindu believers.
And although there is still much to be done, we can aspire to a world in which Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists -- and believers and non-believers of every stripe -- are partners instead of enemies.
Believers cannot abandon what they believe; but in a nation that includes Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and non-believers, "democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values".
