In Eastern vs. Western Metaphysics, Nesta Smith touches upon some intriguing parallels between the thoughts of Kant and Hinduism, and between Hume and Buddhism. I got a kick out of the Hindu account of personal identity:
The Upanisads use the metaphor of a passenger in a chariot to describe the self . The intellect is the chariot driver, the mind is the reins, the body is the chariot, the horses are the senses and the objects of sense are the lands they travel over.
The seamlessness between the chariot drawn by the senses and the object of perception, the land, recalls the tight relationship between perception and action, in which the structure of the ’subject’ and the structure of the ’object’ are each incomprehensible without the other. An important point is the fact that the body appears as an accessory to the self, not the self itself. The self is borne in the chariot.