SCOTSMAN AS A BUDDHIST MONK. A MISUNDERSTANDING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 160, 27 June 1908, Page 4

SCOTSMAN AS A BUDDHIST MONK.

A MISUNDERSTANDING.

liave visited ail eornei's of the -lolk- and lilled all borts, of curious role,- in lit'', but never until this week (writes the New Zealand limos London correspondent on April 21) has one ol (hem returned io this couutrv as a i'tib-iied-cd JtuddhU monk. Mr. Allan I'.enitell- of Cambridge ; I'nivejjity. left his native land for the Kar sevn years and returned | this wi'«'k to Ivondon as JSikkha Amanda j Meliya, Ihiddhist monk and holy man. lie is the lirst Muddhist monk who has | ever veiled and his arrival has ] naturally alti'afied snine attention, lie- i port ei'.i invar I I'd liikkha MeUeya's cabin uti hi-* arrival at the duck-, lie >at in

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