Show BUDDHISM IN IS I A Japan io o traveler who ho claims to have hac to is the tho Interior of or Tibet and the fo city elt stays cays I I that tho the government of ot that mysterious country Is s orl for tor the tho t express purpose of ot maintaining tho Iho religion It Its ItI I s the tho most meet t absolute hierarchy In Iii the About ono no person In III every eer leho of tho the population of ot Tibet It appears Is la n Buddhist priest or monk and priests compose a 1 very ery largo large pron pio portion of ot the tho Inhabitants of ot The Jho country Is III kept virtually sealed foaled to foreigners In ill order to 10 shut elicit out Ideas and anti Influences that might Provo prove hurt hurtful ful tul to Buddhism The rhe most iciest erroneous Ideas prevail with regent to other countries and their civilisation lIon though linon tho the priesthood there Is IR a light high rho o of scholarship with respect to Buddhism We Wc hope holo the English r I expo will succeed In III opening up lp the country to 10 the world Perhaps much couch important knowledge concerning concern InK the thc history of man nian Is to 10 be he found there here Homo Some scholars have hato hll expressed 11 ho tho toilet that limo tho traditions of the tho Buddhists go 10 back M OH far fill as os Nonh Noah and that Iha t Buddha perhaps was no other othor than limn this his celebrated ancestor tor of ot man Any light Ight sited shed 11 on this and similar qu Ions tlona Is of ot Interest and Importance |