History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c25.s3.9

c25.s3.9

These two schools may be compared to Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna Buddhism. The tendency towards monism, theism, and bhakti, which is evident in the later schools, both of Ājīvikism and Buddhism, was part of the profound religious and cultural movements at work in the India of the time, which culminated in the popular devotional Hinduism of the Middle Ages.