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46 bishops; and SO empowered to receive confessions, and to impose penances, and give absolution. Besides all this, there was found the practice of using holy water, of singing service in alternation, of praying for the dead, and a perfect similarity in the costumes of the great and the superior Lamas to those of the different orders of the Romish hierarchy. These early missionaries, further, were led to conclude, from what they saw and heard that the ancient books of the Lamas contained traces of the Christian religion, which must, they thought, have been preached in Tibet in the time of the Apostles. "2 (Italics are. Author's). “Attentive readers will have noticed in the rough sketch of Buddha's life many details coinciding with the incidents of the life of our. Saviour as reported by the Gospels. Sakya Muni, we are told, came from heaven, was born of a virgin, welcomed by angels, received by an old saint who was endowed with prophetic vision, presented in a temple, baptized with water and afterwards baptized with fire. He astonished the most learned doctor by his understanding and his answers. He was led by the spirit into wilderness, and having been tempted by the devil, he went 2 H. T. Princep, Tibet, Tartary and Mongolia, p. 12-14.