compound-multiple

Updated: May 14, 2025

Yet his ontology seemed to me not of either. Buddhism does not teach the doctrine of compound-multiple Souls. There are old Shinto books inaccessible to the multitude which speak of a doctrine very remotely akin to Kinjuro's; but Kinjuro had never seen them.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : Second Series