ABSTRACT
The original Sakyan gospel centred in the figure of each man's life as a Way. A sounder psychology, assigning value to the work of touch, in common with such insight in other psychological thinking arose at a later stage in Sakya. As an appreciation of man as creator, both "worlds" would appeal to the Indian, and it may well be that they made good a want in Sakya, when the belief in a supreme personal creator-deity had waned. That the early Sakyans believed in rebirth in those unhappy worlds as highly probable in the hereafter of the unworthy of earth is to be accepted, unless indeed the Founder drew the line at animals. For the object of the Sutta is not so much a deliberate de-valuing of deva-worth, as an early case of apotheosizing the worth of the Founder of Sakya.
