Note 110 — Chapter VII · BUDDHIST JAVA

After this was written a remarkable article by Dr. L. A. Waddell in The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review (January, 1912), insisting upon the theistic nature of Buddhism and speaking of the profound theistic development which had taken place—about 100 B.C.—in the direction of the Mahayana form of that faith, pointed to the fact of Brahmanic gods being also conspicuous in the earliest Buddhist sculptures of India, adorning, e.g., the stupa of Bharhoot.