The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s1.2

c12.s1.2

For the purpose of studies in secular life and institutions these texts are exceedingly valuable. They are mostly in the form of biographies, legends or legendary biographies and biographical legends bearing on Sākya who in most of this literature is not a mere man or monk or prophet, but a veritable god, the Buddha. These stories of new or rather the only Buddhism, i.e., the Buddha-cult, strictly so called, are as important in Indian social and moral thought as the *Jātakas*, the stories of Sākyaism, i.e., of old Buddhism (*Hīnayāna*).