Do Buddhists believe in a soul?

"If we assume that by soul we are referring to a kind of unchanging identity, which is somehow connected with the body but not of the body, not as it were, physical, then one would be positing something like the Christian doctrine of the soul. Or perhaps in Indian terms, something like the Atman, the in-dwelling presence of the universal spirit, of Brahma. We don't believe in that, because, in fact we see that merely as a philosophical elaboration of self-clinging..."
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