mixture is poured on to another jug, and a drop or two is allowed to trickle on to the hands of each of the worshipping monks, who marks the crown of his shaven head, his forehead, and his breast with the sacred liquid. He then reverently swallows the remaining drops; and, in so doing, believes himself to be mystically swallowing part of the Divine Being, whose image has been caught in the mirror over which the water has past.1

Lāmaism, indeed, with its shaven priests, its bells, and rosaries, its images, and holy water, and gorgeous dresses; its service with double choirs, and processions, and creeds, and mystic rites, and incense, in which the laity are spectators only; its abbots and monks, and nuns of many grades; its worship of the double Virgin, and of the saints and angels; its fasts, confessions, and purgatory; its images, its idols, and its pictures; its huge monasteries, and its gorgeous cathedrals, its powerful hierarchy, its cardinals, its Pope, bears outwardly at least a strong resemblance to Romanism, in spite of the essential difference of its teachings, and of its mode of thought.2

'Schlagintweit, 'Buddhism in Tibet,' pp. 227, 239. Huc et Gabet, Voyages,' 1, p. 29. Moorcroft and Trebeck 'Travels,' 1, pp. 344, and foll. Klaproth 'Reise in den Kaukasus,' 1, p. 203. Pallas Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs,' ii., 160-190.

2 Father Bury in Kerson's 'The Cross and the Dragon,' (1854) p. 185.

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