There was only one living god, he said, and that was the who was at present in came the White Lamas two pumper, who formed the right and eft hands of the living god. One of these, the Jeff hand man, was in Hupeh and the other was himself, the White Lama, now in Shanghai. He was formerly the abbot of the Mongolian Temple in Peking, and was for that reason that he proposed again to visit the scenes of his youth.
The holy man then went on to speak of the Buddhist religion, and gave a lengthy exposition of origin and its influence, that the Buddhist religion was now divided into two sects—one in Tibet and the other in China, The Chinese branch, whilst adhering to the Dalai Lama in "Tibet, separated from the Tibetan sect' in the Han Dynasty, some 1,500 years ago. It had since spread to Japan, which country he hoped to visit ata later date. The Tibetan sect was known in Chinese as the mid-on and that in China was called the benjer, Both intermingled and the religion was one, Chinese went to Tibet and Mongolia and the Tibetans and Mongols came to China. Both were review but their spiritual beliefs differed.
The Mongol-Tibetan sect pene trated China in the latter part of the Tang Dynasty, 1,000 years ago. Following the immigration of this sect, Japan and China evinced considerable interest in this new roigion and monks were sent to study it, However, it flourished more in Japan than in China, The Lwo sects gained great influence China, but the Chinese sect really predominated, The Mongol-Tibetan sect shortly afterwards was again divided into two branches, the red and the yellow branch, and it was of this latter that the White Lamas and the Panchen Lama belonged, The red branch was dying out and the yellow branch's influence over the people was considerably greater than the red.
Peace and happiness, he said, were the objects of the religion and with perseverance, one could attain these. Whilst the religion favoured vegetarianism, this was not always possible and it remained a matter more for the individual than for the religion itself, Liquor drinking and smoking were not tolerated among the Teulers of the religion, but there, again, it was a matter of individual taste,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.