hinduistic

Updated: July 11, 2025

The miraculous legends with which the life of Buddha was gradually invested, the almost idolatrous worship paid to him, the belief that he himself was but the last of many incarnations in which the Buddha had already revealed himself from the very beginning of creation all these later accretions represent, no doubt, the reaction upon Buddhism of its Hinduistic surroundings.

Sir Valentine Chirol - India, Old and New