Lam glad to inform you that the Maha Bodhi Society has entered its ninth year of usefulness. "Te was founded in the year 1891 in the month of May, with the object of reviving the forgotten Religion of Gautama Buddha, in India, and establishing monasteries in Buddha-Gaya, as well as in Kusinaré and Benares, Buddhism is being studied by learned men in France, Germany, Austria, England and America; and there are Bud-diiists now in all these countries. It is in India that we have to work, as it is the birth place of our Tathagata Buddha.
Ju ancient days the Buddhists of India sent Buddhist Bhikshus to preach the Dhamma to far distant countries. If not for the Indian Bhikshus there would be no Buddhism in Ceylon, Burma and other countries. But the present Indian people have forgotten all about our holy Religion. They donot know anything of the Buddha, of the Dhamma and of the Sangha. There are orer 200 millions of people in India who are ignorant of the blessed life of our Lord. Some worship Vishnu, some Siva, than Rs, 20 or 30 thousand. In Entally, a suburb of Calcutta, there are fine garden, houses. A suitable one may be purchased at Rs. 15,000. In Benares, a garden house may be purchased at Rs, 6,000.
Sabba Dénam Dhamma' Dinan Jindti. Supreme Lord Buddha in compassion and in loving kindness preached the Dhamma for forty-five yenrs to the people in India, His great Inve to the people is shown by the active life He had lived. For four asankheyye and 100,000 kalpas he practised pdrami dhamma to save the world, The Maha Bodhi Society is now well-known to the world, The Mahi Nayaka There Sumangala of Ceylon is its President. The Burmese Buddhists who are helping the Society are Moung Ohn Ghine, A.T. M.; Moung Hyy, E. A. C.> Moun Ket, K. S. M.; Moung Shway Oh of Moulmein, and others.
The work of the future which requires our serious attention is—
(1) to build small_Kyoungs (Rest Houses) in Gaya, Rs. 3,000; Kusinard, Rs.5,000 Benares, Rs. 6,000; amount required Rs. 14,000 (2) to bring otto India Bhikshus from Burma, Siam, Ceylon and Japan and maintain them, (8) to organise Buddhist Missionary Societies in all Buddhist countries to get help from all Buddhists to carry on the Indian Bud-diiist Revival (4) to start a Printing Press to print the Mako Bodhi Journal in English, Bengali, Burmese and Hindi as well as to-print the Suttas
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.