Citat om buddhisme fra en bog om japansk kultur, som Gustaf Munch-Petersen læste i vinteren 1933-34: For the Buddha of the deeper Buddhism is not Gautama [den historiske Buddha], nor yet any one Tathâgata [en, der har nået den fuldkomne oplysning], but simply the divine in man. Chrysalides [(sommerfugle-)pupper] of the infinite we all are: each contains a ghostly Buddha, and the millions are but one. All humanity is potentially the Buddha-to-come, dreaming through the ages in Illusion; and the teacher's smile will make beautiful the world again when selfishness shall die. Citeret fra Lafcadio Hearn, Kokoro. Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (London: Gay and Hancock Ltd., 1914), s. 219-220.