Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . ittle, I cannotsay the same of his dress, which in every detail was that ofour own bishops. He wore on his head a yellow mitre. Inhis right hand was a staff in the form of the crosier. Hisshoulders were covered with a cloak of violet silk, fastenedacross the chest with a hook, and resembling our cope. Lateron we will point out many similarities between Catholic andLamanesque rites. ^ This lama was not the Delai lama. In the Life of Gabriel Durand occurs an extract of aletter from Father Ephrem, written in 1883— There (in the Bell Pagoda, Pekin)
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . ittle, I cannotsay the same of his dress, which in every detail was that ofour own bishops. He wore on his head a yellow mitre. Inhis right hand was a staff in the form of the crosier. Hisshoulders were covered with a cloak of violet silk, fastenedacross the chest with a hook, and resembling our cope. Lateron we will point out many similarities between Catholic andLamanesque rites. ^ This lama was not the Delai lama. In the Life of Gabriel Durand occurs an extract of aletter from Father Ephrem, written in 1883— There (in the Bell Pagoda, Pekin) we saw a Chinesepriest dressed almost pin for pin like a Benedictine monk.^I copy two Japanese monks from Sicbolds Nippon.(See Plate VI.) Much of the costume of the Buddhist priests, saysBalfours Indian Cyclopaedia, and of the ritual, has a simi-larity to those of Christians of the Romish and Greek forms ; ^ Cited by Prinsep, Tibet, Tartary, etc. p. 14.^ Voyage dans la Tartaric, etc. vol. ii.^ Gabriel Durand, vol. i. p. 493. > Id H<-1Ph. ^ ^ a to PARABLES, 183 and De Guignes, De Gama, Clavijo, Anthony Jenkinson, allnotice statements regarding the Greek Church, the Chinese,and the Burmans, indicative of the belief in the identity ofthe form of worship. Sir Rutherford Alcock bears similartestimony to this identity of costume amongst the priests,acolytes, and choristers. The missionaries of St. FrancisXavier were struck with it. Two systems and ceremonials of worship presenting suchmarvellous identity in small particulars, and in larger cha-racteristics, could not possibly have been born of chance andwholly independent the one of the other. ^ In point of fact, the Abbe Hue tells us that the Buddhistpriests of Tibet have the dalmatic and the cope exactly likethe Roman Catholics. These two garments have played a conspicuous part in allthe mystic societies of the West. The dalmatic is the close-fitting white garment which envelopes the person from theneck to the heels. The co
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