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TILE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS CITRIST. (loctrines of Shakya Muni received the adoption of the people. Simultancously with the ppcarancc of Budllisen in China, the cloctrinc comincuced to sprcad itsell among the Israelites. About 2,000 years ago the l'erfect Being, still remaining in a statc of inaction, incarmited himself in a new-born babc of a poor family Ho willc. that infant lips, by employing popular images, might enlighten the unfortunate people on the lise bcyond the grave, and might bring back men to the truc path, by indicating to them by his own example the way which would best lead them to the original moral purity. \Vhen the holy child had reached a certain agc he was taken to India, where, until he became a man, he studied all the laws of the great Buddha,, whose everlasting chwelling is in licaven.'
"The rolls brought from India to Nepal and from Nepal to Thibet, relating to the life of Issa, are written in the lali language, and these are to be found at Lassa, but a copy in our language (Thibetan] exists here. The masses arc; however, ignorant of Issa; there is scarcely any one but the great Lamas who know of him, because they have spent their entire lives studying these rolls which relate to Issa. But as his doctrine does not constitute a cannonical part of Buddhism, and as the worshipers of Issa (Christians] do not recognize the authority of the Dalai Lama, in Thibct the proplict Issa is, liko many of his kind, not recognized as one of their principal saints."
licre M. Notovitch inquired whether the act would be sinful, should he recite these copies to a stranger; the Lama replied: "That which belongs to God belongs also to men; duty obliges us to lielp with good grace the propogation of his doctrines; only, I have no knowledge of where in our libraries thesc rolls are to be found; if you ever visit our Gonpa again it will be a
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