ABSTRACT
Ever since Buddhism has begun to be understood in Europe, the remarkable resemblances between it and Christianity have attracted increasing notice. The Buddhists take the vows of celibacy and poverty, they shave the head, they wear long and flowing robes, they have a noviciate and a full membership of the Order, they were originally, and many of them still are, mendicants like the Begging Friars of the West, and the rules they observe with regard to sleeping, residence, and diet are much like those of several of the still existing Catholic Orders. Gotama the Buddha entered once a public hall at Ambalatthika and found some of his disciples talking of a Brahmin who had just been accusing Gotama of impiety, and finding fault with the Order of Mendicants he had founded.
