Douglas Island news., 1910-09-14
AROUND THE WORLD
Dr.. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
Continued from last week.

taught. ASORR erected a sCupa, aud two or three stone pillars here. Any Theosophist will tell you hundred times as much about Buddha asI know butI will say few words about him to freshen your memories. Gautama Budha was born a prince in Northern India. He married and had one child. Being struck by the sufferiugs that human beings have to undergo, he sought the cause. He found it in the sins committed by them, and in their pleasures. He said, "Cut out the sins, cut out the pleasures. and you lessen suffering" A man marries, bye and bye bis wife dies, or his children die or 20 bad and cause him suffering. There fore do not marry. He believed and taught that we are re-incarnated; that we go up or down as we are good or bad, aud, if good, we end up in Nirvana and our 5ufferings cease. He left home, became a pilgrim for years, went through great temptations, became a student and afterwards teacher. For few hundred years after his death, Buddhism made little progress. Then a roaring, fighting character named Also ka came on the throne. He started in by destroying towns and everything in them, but chaucing to talk with some Buddhists, and, after observing their behavior, concluded that he was wrong and that they were right. He conclud. ed to go in for Buddhism, and, as he did everything with rush, he was soon the biggest Buddhist of the lot. He sent missionaries to China and Japan, and now Buddhism is much stronger in those countries than in India. It is from Chinese Buddhist pilgrims that we have descriptions of Sarnath as it was swelve or fifteen hundred years ago, and since excavations were made it is won- derful how their descriptions coincide with what we know.
 There is large hill with a Buddhist stupa about a hundred feet high. Its age is not known. About 3G0 yards away is another stupa built by Asoka It is l29 feet high, the base being nearly 100 feet in diameter. The interior is brick, the outer covering being red stones clamped together. The carving on those stones is both wonderful and beautiful. There is Jaui temple near by. Acres and acres of excavations have been made, uncovering Buddhist mon. astaries, tanks, temples, stone and mar bla figures of gods, human beings, ele- plants, etc. There are passages aud corridors, rooms and cells, rooms lined with marble and beautifully carved was shown the tank where Buddha bathed, the tank where he washed his clothes, and the tank where his monks bathed, all described by Chinese pil grims, over 1000 years ago. All around are large mounds and ruins showing that it must have been very large city. The ruins of one monastery is about 900 feet square. They are build ing large museum near by, and l be. lieve they have dug up enough already to fill it. Beside the stupa were three women winnowing rice. They were throwing chaff in the air and letting the wind carry it off.
 The road had trees on each side, as many of the Indian roads have. In the 45.mile pilgrimage they make they are in the shade all the way. As l went through India and saw the flat, dry, barren looking country, 1 was surpris- ed to find great, green, bushy trees everywhere. You would not know how they could grow out of such soil, or how they could keep green in such a parcbing sun.
 CAWNPORE
 Population about 100000; manufac- turing city, having woolen mills, cotton mills, sugar refneries, tanneries, etc. found it sad town. Sixty or seVen-