[386] Here, again, there are, of course, exceptions. There are "black sheep" within the monastic fold as well as outside it.
[387] Sir George Scott, in Burma: a Handbook, p. 381.
[388] See his Greek Oracles, pp. 8, 18, 20-21. (Eversley Series.)
[389] See ll. 349 seq.
[390] See Frazer's Golden Bough, vol. iii. p. 49, and vol. i. pp. 170-171 (2nd ed.). See also Tylor's Primitive Culture, vol. i. pp. 475-476, and ii. pp. 217-218 (4th ed.); and Rhys Davids' Buddhist India, chap. xii.
[391] Sir George Scott, Burma: a Handbook, p. 22.
[392] Scott O'Connor, The Silken East, p. 128.
[393] A cutting from the sacred tree (a species subsequently known as the ficus religiosa) under which Gautama is believed to have sat when he attained Buddhahood, was brought from India to Ceylon about the year 245 B.C. and planted at Anuradhapura, then the Singhalese capital. It is still growing there, and is annually visited by countless pilgrims from all parts of the Buddhist world.
[394] A Study of Religion, vol. i. p. 374 (2nd ed.).
[395] See an excellent anonymous article in Macmillan's Magazine, vol. ii. No. 16, N.S. It is entitled "The White Man and the British Empire."