. Review of reviews and world's work. at once in Alice inWonderland, Tom Browns School Days, Ivanhoe,and other childrens classics. The transition from read-ing dime novels to actual enjoyment of good literaturemust be slow, and can be accomplished only throughthe infinite patience and perseverance of the occasional boy will rise to the height of the OregonTrail and Ivanhoe, but on the whole the visitormust be satisfied if she raises the general staudard ofreading to Munroe, Henty, and Otis. The same ruleholds good in selecting books for girls. THE LAMAISM OF TIBET. THE dominant reli
. Review of reviews and world's work. at once in Alice inWonderland, Tom Browns School Days, Ivanhoe,and other childrens classics. The transition from read-ing dime novels to actual enjoyment of good literaturemust be slow, and can be accomplished only throughthe infinite patience and perseverance of the occasional boy will rise to the height of the OregonTrail and Ivanhoe, but on the whole the visitormust be satisfied if she raises the general staudard ofreading to Munroe, Henty, and Otis. The same ruleholds good in selecting books for girls. THE LAMAISM OF TIBET. THE dominant religion of Tibet is is more than a religion, however. Inreality, it represents the entire organism, reli-gious, social, and political, of Tibet. It is anabsolute theocracy, without parallel in the world. So we are informed by M. L. de Milloue, aFrench writer, in the Revue UniverseUe. Lama-ism, he says, has many points in common withthe Catholic hierarchy. Everything is subordi-nated to the clergy, the highest religious offi-. POTtTIjU, THE VATICAN ill THE BUDDHIST 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
Size: 2463px × 1015px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1890
