History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c22.s2.35

c22.s2.35

Just as the simpler Buddhists must have found the Theravāda teachings unpalatable and difficult to understand and developed for themselves a more emotional approach to their religion, taking some of their logicians and metaphysicians with them, so with the Southern Ājīvikas the sterile doctrines of Niyati and Avicalita-nityatvam seem to have been put on one side by some branches of the sect and replaced by more attractive and more intelligible teachings.