Dos the wuculent Tibetan Lama want Chinese learning! Are the civilizing influences of his own books nothing to him! Does the high ethical te: we of Gautama have effect on hi oral litel The books he ud studies from morning till night, containing much of the religious instruction China has appropriated to herself; are mete hierog'sphics and nothing more? The Tibetan Lama may be petulant and truculent, but he is not ignorant or living in savage bar barism.
He enters the lamasery at a very carly age. He performs many menial tasks before entering the A long course of mapped out for His life on the scholastic side is by no means an easy one. Grad-nation comes only after years of ard study and a visit to the sacred city of Lhasa. The Lama who wishes to take orders must deny himself many pleasures and devote the early years of his manhood to diligent and painstaking study.
Surely the outcome or product of such a training is a mind capable of thinking and cultivation. The Tibetan Lama is not a dark heathen, but an enlightened one. He has no desire or ambition to acquire the Irarning of Chinese sages; their teaching with all its civilizing influences is nothing to him.
Jaxvary 16, 191
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.