  Perhaps no other classical philosophical tradition, East or West,  offers a more complex and counter-intuitive account of mind and  mental phenomena than Buddhism. While Buddhists share with other  Indian philosophers the view that the domain of the mental  encompasses a set of interrelated faculties and processes, they do  not associate mental phenomena with the activity of a substantial,  independent, and enduring self or agent. Rather, Buddhist theories of mind center on the doctrine of  not-self[1]  (Pāli anatta,   Skt.[2] anātma), which postulates that human beings are  reducible to the physical and psychological constituents and  processes which comprise them.