Similar difficulties would be in the way of St. Hyacinth of Poland in, say, a monastery of Ceylon. The abbot there would be responsible to what Bishop Bigandet calls his "provincial," and he again to his "supérieur général" (p. 478), and so on to the Âchârya, the "High Priest of all the World," who, in his palace at Nalanda, near Buddha Gayâ, was wont to sit in state, surrounded by ten thousand monks. Buddhism, by the time that a Christian missionary could have reached it, was a far more diffused and conservative religion than Anglicanism. It had a canon law quite as definite. It had hundreds of volumes treating of the minutest acts of Sakya Muni. THE END. _Printed by Cowan & Co., Limited, Perth._ INDEX. Amrapalî, the Buddhist Magdalene, 61. Alexandria, bridges East and West, 102. Altar, Apostles of the Bloodless, 99 _et seq._ Antiochus, mentioned by King Asoka, 97. Apostles, the Buddhist Parivrajakas, 105. Appearances of Buddha after death, 67. Architecture, Christian, derived from the Buddhist rock temples, 177. Asita, the Indian Simeon, 29. Asoka, King, 93 _et seq._ Atheism, early Buddhist disproved, 77 _et seq._ Atonement, 68. Baptism, the Buddhist, 43, 108. Beal, Rev. S., on a Buddhist liturgy, 176. Beatitudes, the Buddhist, 48. Bigandet, Catholic bishop, his "Life of Gautama" cited, 27 _et passim_. Bimbisâra, advised like Herod to kill the Holy Child, 28. Bhikshu, Buddhist beggar, Ebionite, 129. Bodhi, Gnosis, interior knowledge, 77. Brahma, union with, object of early Buddhism, 80. Buddha, born of a virgin, 24; Star in the East, 26; Baptism and fasting, 44; Temptation, 45; Disputation with the doctors, 30; Third commandment, 51; Triumphant entry into the city of the king, 54; Forsaken by disciples, 58; Transfigured, 63; Last supper, 65; Death, 65; Darkness over all the land at his death, 65. Buddhism defined, 77; Schools of, 84; Eight spiritual states, 108. Burnouf, Emile, considers Christianity due to a conflict between Mosaism and Buddhism, 1. Ceylon scriptures, 85. Chakravartin, King of Kings, Messiah, 35. Chief priest in early Church modelled on Jewish, 161. Circumcision widely spread amongst savages, 15. Church of Jerusalem, creed, 129; Description of, 160. Clement of Alexandria on the Hylobii and followers of Buddha, 89. Colebrooke, Henry, Orientalist, sees Buddhist philosophy in the teaching of Pythagoras, 101. Cunningham, Sir Alexander, traces incidents of Buddha's life in pre-Christian sculptures in the Buddhist temples, 179. Darkness over the land at Buddha's death, 65. Daranatha, Chinese historian, valuable testimony about early Buddhism, 90, 99. Disciple whom Buddha loved, 46. Disciples, twelve great, 46. Disderi, Father, visits Lha Sa, 174. Ebionite, Buddhist bhikshu, 129. Enoch, Book of, 164. Epiphanius cited, 130.