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head-quarters of Buddhism. A late census 

 gives 760,000 as the number of members of 

 this religion residing on the island. From the 

 same source I quote an interesting classifi- 

 cation of those attached to the various Buddhist 

 temples ; 6,300 priests ; 300 temple servants ; 

 140 tom-tom beaters ; 1,532 devil-dancers ; 200 

 astrologers ; 200 actors, and nautch dancers ; 

 120 snake charmers ; 168 musicians. The very 

 enumeration thereof gives me a whirling sense 

 of noise and motion very foreign to our western 

 ideas of religion. 



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