Bining, Dec. 10.
At present there is 8 great scarcity of the prominent Living Buddhas in this district. They have paseed away from this life, and their new incarnation has not yet been discovered, Somewbere among these border bills of China or on the steppes of or may be in the wild fastnesses of Tibet, little laddies are running about after sheep and playing with the gate, ignorant of the fact that they will some day be known ae the reincarnation of some well-known Buddha. In the last few generations the laddies have almost invariably been found among ly Bakamuni seems to have lost ite charm upon the Living Buddhas of to-day. It ie reported the wealth of one of the Living Buddhas is enormous, that away down in a dark cell in the Lamaeery is a great pile of silver, that all the slver brought ae gifte by the faithfal is taken to thio call and melted lown.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.