Well of course they thought that, but you're thinking in an exclusionary mindset that most of us Westerners use when we think about religion. Many people in Asia who are Buddhists are also other things. This has not always been the case, but in some places, especially in Japan there are well known temples that contain Shinto Shrines and Buddhist shrines.
I have a friend who was born and raised in Korea who, until he went to college, had a combination of religions that his family observed, one of them being Buddhism.
So I'm not arguing that the Shinto actually believed in reincarnation, or that the Jodo sect of Buddhism focused on reincarnation, but they didn't discount it.
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I have a friend who was born and raised in Korea who, until he went to college, had a combination of religions that his family observed, one of them being Buddhism.
So I'm not arguing that the Shinto actually believed in reincarnation, or that the Jodo sect of Buddhism focused on reincarnation, but they didn't discount it.