The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s4.7

c10.s4.7

Still later, the common ground of *Mahāyāna-cum-Tantrism* and Purāṇic-Hinduism is quite extensive. These aspects of Buddhism may be called semi-“Hindu,” as has been done in my *Chinese Religion Through Hindu Eyes* and *Folk-Element in Hindu Culture* (London 1917). Altogether, no study of “Hindu” culture in any of its phases of evolution can pretend to be fair which does not devote simultaneous attention to Buddhist and non-Buddhist sources.