Religion and Radical Non-Conformity

Abstract

"A DISTINGUISHED student of Buddhism, T. W. Rhys Davids, more than once remarked on the similarities which exist, in practice, between two religious systems so fundamentally different in origin as Buddhism and Romanism. The similarities are most clearly to be observed in the Tibetan form of Buddhism, " with its shaven priests, its bells and rosaries, its images and holy water, and gorgeous dresses; its services with double choirs, and processions and creeds and mystic rites . . . its huge monasteries ... cathedrals ... hierarchy ... cardinals ... Pope ""