A BUDDHIST BABY. Picturesque Baptismal Ceremony in Paris.
A curious ceremony has lately been affording amusement to fifty thousand Parisians collected in the Jardin d'Acclimatation. The Cingalese troupe now exhibiting there have just had their numbers augmented by the birth of a boy, whoso baptism was celebrated yesterday with full Buddhist rites. In the morning the proceedings?! were opened by a visit of two bonzes or priests to the cradle, where, according to precedent, they drew the child's horoscope. They decided that he would reach a great old age, and have many children. In the afternoon wa3 the most picturesque part of the performance. The women at a given signal walked out of their huta chanting a wild refrain, and carried a bag containing a tooth of Sakyn Mouni to where the infant lay on the graes. They there scattered flowers over it, while the men took up the song. The child has received, besides the . names of its father, the additional one of Paris. If ifc had been a genuine Hindoo Parisians would have missed this picturesque spectacle, which in that ca s e 1 could only have lawfully taken place in the land of the Indus Granges.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 1
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199A BUDDHIST BABY. Picturesque Baptismal Ceremony in Paris. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 1
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