Note 136 — Chapter XV · BADULLA AND HAPUTALE
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Some are more discriminating. I was one day sketching in the temple of Tiendong, a great Buddhist monastery in China, when a kindly old priest, who had watched my work with great interest, asked quite sadly what was the good, and what merit could there be in my doing all this, if I did not really reverence the Poossas, i.e., the saints and their images? See ‘Wanderings in China,’ vol. ii. p. 41.