Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . countof a ceremony that takes place every Whit Monday, atArgenteuil, in France. A portion of the Saviours robe iscarried in procession in a golden casket in the presence ofmany of the most high-born Catholics of France and fragment is made of camels hair, is dark brown in colour,and of stuff very like that of a garment worn by modernArabs. Pius IX. begged a little fragment of it, which showsthat it is thought authentic. I mention this to show an earlytradition of the Church. In the days of St. Antony, Christianmonks still wore a gar
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . countof a ceremony that takes place every Whit Monday, atArgenteuil, in France. A portion of the Saviours robe iscarried in procession in a golden casket in the presence ofmany of the most high-born Catholics of France and fragment is made of camels hair, is dark brown in colour,and of stuff very like that of a garment worn by modernArabs. Pius IX. begged a little fragment of it, which showsthat it is thought authentic. I mention this to show an earlytradition of the Church. In the days of St. Antony, Christianmonks still wore a garment of camels hair. The Buddhist nuns have the black and the white veil, butthese, as in Spain, are for protection against heat in summer,and cold in winter. They do not denote spiritual nun with the white veil I copied from Siebolds Nippon; ^the nun with the black veil from a photograph. In theGreek Church the nuns have similar long sleeves to hide theirhands. (See Plate VII.) 1 Siebold, Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan. > <. ( 185 ) CHAPTER XVI. Christianity and Buddhism at first propagated secretly—Descent intoHell—Transfiguration on a mount—Triumphal entry into the Cityof the King—The Buddhist Last Supper—Cup of Agony—Por-tents at the death of a Buddha—They parted my garments—Trinity in Unity. See that Thou tell no Man How was Buddhism spread by Buddha ? A vivacious critic, in a print called the Indian Antiquary,has charged me with crass ignorance and other unkindthings, because I assert that Buddhism, in the first instance,made its progress as a secret society. The critic pointstriumphantly to the abundant chronicles of the SouthernBuddhists, where every step of the reformer and his movementis set down. I wish I could agree with my critic, and accept thesechronicles without critical sifting. According to them,Buddha first preached the law in a deer forest, about fourmiles to the north of the holy city of Benares. The spot iscalled Sarnath
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