The Buddhist tradition holds that there is no ātman or self. They believe that the concept of self binds a person to the corporeal world and prevents him from achieving nirvāṇa. In the Buddhist tradition, what people believe to be the self is actually a set of five aggregates. These aggregates are the senses through which we experience the world and give us a false sense of individuality. If a person abandons these aggregates, he can attain nirvāṇa and leave the cycle of rebirths. However, Buddhists believe that something survives after death. This is reflected in the Buddhist belief that when someone dies, they are reincarnated into one of six realms based on their past karma. However, the soul is not what is reincarnated; rather, there is a flow of consciousness between one life and the next. The reincarnated being is neither completely the same nor completely different. The Buddha taught that a middle ground must be followed between eternalism and annihilationism. Outside of Buddhism, the belief in an eternal self or soul is quite common, this is called eternalism. Many religions, including Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity, believe in an eternal soul. This belief is in fact a central idea in the belief system of their practitioners. Without an eternal soul, a Hindu cannot follow the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, a Christian cannot go to heaven or hell and a Muslim cannot go to Jannah or Jahhanam. Another belief is that of annihilationism. The idea behind annihilationism is that when you die, nothing survives. The body and soul are destroyed and there is no form of rebirth or reincarnation. Annihilationism is a belief shared by both materialists and some Christians. Materialists believe that nothing... middle of paper ... and you still retain your identity, so something must provide that identity. This argument does a good job of challenging Nagasena's no-self argument. My argument contradicts this by showing that something without a soul retains its identity despite losing one of its parts, which strengthens Nagasena's argument. Something's self is made from ephemeral traits that do not transcend death. Nagasena's argument follows the Buddhist belief system in maintaining a middle ground between the eternalist view of the soul and annihilationism. The soul also does not exist and it is not impossible for the flow of consciousness between individuals in the cycle of rebirths to occur. Since consciousness is one of the five aggregates, Nagasena's argument still allows the Buddhist concept of reincarnation through a stream of consciousness to be true..