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APPENDIX Chinese Buddhist Books (Bodleian Library, Jap. 65 DD, 結六P. 73; this book is not in Nanjio's Catalogue). . . . Moreover, the Sanghârâma of the Sâkya and the mon- astery of Tâ-ch'in (Syria) differ much in their customs, and their religious practices are entirely opposed to each other. King-ching (Adam) ought to hand down the teaching of MESSIAH (Mi-shi-ho), and the Sâkyaputriya-Sramanas should propagate the Sûtras of the Buddha. EXTRACT 8 149 The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, edited by James Knowles, Vol. XXXVI, July-December 1894 (Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London 1894) Page 517. But M. Notovitch, though he did not bring the manuscripts home, at all events saw them, and not pre- tending to a knowledge of Tibetan, had the Tibetan text translated by an interpreter, and has published seventy pages of it in French in his Vie inconnue de Jésus-Christ. He was evidently prepared for the discovery of a Life of Christ among the Buddhists. Similarities between Christianity and Buddhism have frequently been pointed out of late, and the idea that Christ was influenced by Buddhist doc- trines has more than once been put forward by popular writers. The difficulty has hitherto been to discover any real historical channel through which Buddhism could have reached Palestine at the time of Christ. M. Notovitch