Bishop Mazziniananda, who will celebrate his 105th practising Buddhist India. He was born in Ispahan, in 1825, and was taken by his mother to Benares.at the age of seven, after his father had been assassmoted by his brother and his grandfather by his own son. Thence (in 1835) he was taken to Lhasa, where for 1G years he was close to the old Dalai Lama, Tis modern education started in Cal-cutty (before the Mutiny), and subsequently at Oxford he took D. Lift, and Scr, securing his Pu. p. from Heidelberg, his mother having in the meantime married that noted mathematician, Rhys Morgan, This interesting centenarian, who has the personal appearance' of a man of sixty, possesses the mental energy of most men at forty. In 1893 he came for the first time to the United Ststes, where he has lived ever i now conducts a Church sal Truth at Oakland, He has instructed of Americans snets of Buddhism; and is certainly 'a striking example of his preachments of longevity. If Sri Sumangala, of Ceylon, is not still alive, believe that I'am saying that Dr. Mazzi is. the ablest active Buddhist monk out of Tndia and Tibet, In Los Angeles a very considerable following has been built up by Swami Yogananda, a Brahmin educated at either" Oxford Cambridge, who literally swept this country by storm in a nation-wide tour some years ago, He followed the set plan of the usual lecturer of giving a few free lectures, subsequently enrolling members to a private class of instruction, at a charge of 25 dollars for the course, and is said to have collected in fees something like a million dollars, He now has a large class of struction by mail, issues one or two magazines on higher thought lines, and is without doubt doing a great deal of good, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and many of the other large cities have also been served in somewhat the same way by other swamis, and it now appears that the time is ripe for the-ce-ordinal of all activities in the field.
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