 A tradition that the Greek atomist Democritus was acquainted with the ideas of the ‘gymnosophists’ or ‘naked wise men’ of India is difficult to authenticate. Claims that Indian atomism was shaped by Greek influences (Keith 1921, 17) are uncommon in recent scholarship. The possibility that Islamic atomism was impacted by debates in classical Indian philosophy has been more extensively considered, particularly given parallel arguments and the shared view that atoms never exist in isolation (Pines 1997; Wolfson 1976). Another feature common to both traditions is a willingness to ascribe sensible qualities to atoms, in contrast to Greek atomist theories. Indian Buddhist scholars introduced atomist theories to China from the second century CE onward, but they seem not to have been adopted into ancient Chinese natural philosophy (Needham 1969, 22).