ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828060/49546f0e-ce84-4e70-9b40-7107f16ee305/content/unfig_w_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>HILE there are clear traces of magical superstitions and Taoist beliefs in the Hung ceremony, it is also evident that Buddhism, and particularly Buddhist Monasticism, has not been without its influence. The heroes of the legend are Buddhist Monks, a fact which is not surprising when we remember that the organisation which Eon founded in 386 A.D. had as its basis eighteen persons, whose number was avowedly in imitation of the 18 Lohans of Buddha. It seems probable, indeed, that the ceremonies of the Hung Society are in part based on those which admitted a man to the Order of Monks, although those may themselves have been evolved out of earlier initiation rites.
