Identifier: opencourt_feb1912caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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wastaken there in 1835 as a little child destined for the life work Icraved from my cradle, that of the life of a monk in the serviceof Our Lord Buddha, as it was for this holy purpose I returned tothe Earth plane, my previous work not being completed. I re-mained studying at the feet of the Holy One there, the late DalaiLama, until 1853—18 long years in the seclusion of the Himalayas,and was received into the Holy Sangho in 1847 at the age of 20,and was made a priest. I continued my priestly duties till the ^ Since the Most Rev. Sri Sumangala, High Priest of Ceylon, recentlydied, the Lord Abbot Mazziniananda is now the oldest Buddhist monk. A BUDDHIST PRELATE OF CALIFORNIA. 67 early part of 1853 when in company with three other monks, twoRussians and a Tibetan (since gone to the higher expression ofHfe) I started for India preaching and spreading the Dharma. Ithen journeyed to Europe and on to England and Wales where Ionce again saw my noble mother who had re-married a noted mathe-
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THE BUDDHIST CHURCH AT SACRAMENTO. matician of Welsh extraction by the name of Rhys Morgan, anM. A. and LL. D. of Cambridge, England, my own father havingbeen slain by his brother in Ispahan, Persia (my birthplace, April4, 1827, 7.30 a.m.). At her advice I studied to complete my Eng-lish and then took afterwards my degrees of B. A., M. A, and M. D. 68 THE OPEN COURT. Afterwards I again returned to India and thence via Darjeeling andSikkim back to my home, the cloistered palace where I remainedmany more years. In 1893 I came to the U. S. via England, and wasat the Congress of Religions in your city of Chicago, after whichI went east and gradually wended my way west, all the time teach-ing and spreading the Dharma. I came to California in the earlypart of 1903 and have been on the coast and the interior ever since,winning souls for our Lord the Tathagato. Although four timesgiven up to die, I have so far cheated the undertaker, for I knowand realize I have still 40 more years before meopencourt_feb1912caru

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