Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c5.s2.t13.44
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c5.s2.t13.44
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c5.s2.t13.44
4. Much stress was laid on the composition of the Jātakas and Avadānas, and great religious merit was attached to reading, writing, painting, and carving them. This caught the fancy of the laity as a means of earning religious merit, and resulted in many sculptures, only some of which are preserved to us at Sanchi and Bharaut. The credit of popularising the religion through the Jātakas and Avadānas is due, in the first instance, to the Sarvāstivādins, and later, to the Theravādins.