. Review of reviews and world's work. HIST POPE AT LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 1 dais, among whom, in Tibet, arc the L. de Millout traces the history of the devel-opment of Lamaism from the earliest times. He says that since thebegi n ning of theninth century thehistory of Tibet hasbeen merely the his-tory of the clergy,who have had al-most absolute powerover the , he says,is a sort of Bud-dhism, but nluchcorrupted by min-gling a certain my-thology and mysti-cism w h i c h w a speculiarly Tibetan,and afterward be-came still moie cor-rupted into a sortof fantas
. Review of reviews and world's work. HIST POPE AT LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 1 dais, among whom, in Tibet, arc the L. de Millout traces the history of the devel-opment of Lamaism from the earliest times. He says that since thebegi n ning of theninth century thehistory of Tibet hasbeen merely the his-tory of the clergy,who have had al-most absolute powerover the , he says,is a sort of Bud-dhism, but nluchcorrupted by min-gling a certain my-thology and mysti-cism w h i c h w a speculiarly Tibetan,and afterward be-came still moie cor-rupted into a sortof fantastic sorcery to which many local super-stitions were added. The word lama stands for the term really signifies -superior, venerable. TheTibetan priests are subjected to the most rigor-ous training during their youth, and are monksin the strictest sense of the term. They arevery numerous, representing, it is said, one-eighth of the entire population of the country,and possessing almost all the public CAKYA MOlXI. (The most sacred of Buddhas). Jlfl*. They are in reality, says tins French writer, a great plague to the people, and are themselves corrupt and insincere. Not the Supreme Head of Buddhism. The new quarterly, Buddhism, published inRangoon. Burma, ridicules the idea that the Dalai Lama of Lassa hasi any headship over Buddhists general-ly. Commenting onColonel Younghus-bands mission tothe Tibetan capital,this review says :We may state in-cidentally, in viewof wild rumors tothe contrary, thatthe Buddhists ofB u r m a — and, wepresume, all Bud-dhists in the BritishEmpire—view withabsolute indiffer-ence the affairs ofthe Dalai Lama andof Tibet generally,with w h i c h theyhave nothing in common, and that the fictionthat Buddhists regard the former in the samelight as do Roman Catholics the Pope is tooabsurd for serious discussion.
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