"Tu Reuicioy oF Times, A Srovy oF Tawainae™—By JO" Blain, Lone dont down Marta This is a small book, 6h by 6 finches, and contains 120 pages, It belongs to "The Wisdom of the East" series and: is planned to give "og correct an account, as possible of the religion of Tibet' for the me formation of the general render." The author professes himself to be a Buddhist ud made a journey to Tibet to gather information of his subject at first hand, He. claims that his afnity with the religion of Tibet. gave him"an easy entrance {nto most of the monastrios and explanation of the vires not granted to many foreigners endeavour is to present the views of my Tibetan friend able a Tight as possi finds it diffcutt to say much that is good for Lamaiam. Lhasa, the Mosen of Lamaiam in describe he. metropolis. of hand Chinese are rude enough to any. {t fg a city of devils who. feed upon excrement. Not ting city be found that ts 80 indes cribably. dirty. Not only are streets full of holes into which the unwary may fall but there are the middle of them open cess-pools, specially constructed, and used both by men and women without concealment. OF ie religion we are fold that the image which has the place of honour in the holy of hol that of the historical Budd represented as youth and as Royal Prince, The value of the offerings laid before this image in the course of a year is beyond computation. Its "Tampa. are pure gold and all the ormanents about the image are covered with enormous uncut gems.
By way of grotesque contrast the oer above is mainly devoted to the ternals Bodhisattvas, {8 sometimes female demon; at other times beautiful and gracious Indy. 0 picture represents. her clothed in human skins riding upon a mule and eating brains out of a skull, There are many such disgusting gods and goddesses in Lamnism. The author folia us, it ig true, that the Pictures are the'sxoterie garnishin of Lamaism. They. ae not Fe-Presentations of beings supposed to exist oF ever to have existed. Each and all personify the different aspects of the one knowledge. and the one noseienee. We would say that each and all personify the nightmares of a degraded and degrading superstition and. those
in these ant-hills of muck are simply pretend to rd gems of wisdom deceiving themselves and attempinge to deceive their reader For many years China has been examined and criticized by the West from almost every point of view. Her philosophy, her religion, her political institutions, and her social customs have all been dissected. The educated Chinese have not only they, in turn, ha Mr. Paul King, a retired Ca missioner of Chinese Customs, makes this double text the sublet of a book he is, publishing with Heath Granton, He entitles it, "Weig China's "Balance," and. dgerib it as an "attempt at explanation." 4
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.