Excerpt from The Catholic World, Vol. 42: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science; October, 1885, to March, 1886
Having seen that Lamaism is but an imitation of the hierarchy and institutions of the Catholic Church, we may expect that the story of the life of Buddha also was gradually adorned \vith legends copied from the real life of Christ and adapted to ()ri ental taste.
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