BUDDHIST SACRED MUSIC.
A French traveller recently returned from iSiara, gives an accouut of a new Buddhist temple which has just been completed in the environs of Bangkok, and which closely resembles in appearance a .Christian church. The guide told him, to his great surprise,- that it was a pagoda, and on entering the building he observed the same close imitation of the interior of a Catholic place of worship. There was an altar with a large image of Buddha placed ou it, stained glass windows, prie-dieus, and all the other accessories of Catholic devotion. "What do you think of it ? asked the Bonze who took him over the buildiug, and who was evidently very proud of it. "It is very modern,"- said the tourist, deprecatingly. " Modern it is, of course/ said the priest, who took the remark as a compliment, We have even anorgan, and a better one it is than any you have in France, for it plays without an organist. We had it made to order by a firm in London, and as you will hear, it plays nothing but the finest sacred music." Whereupon he turned the handle, and the Frenchman, to his great edification, heard the familiar air which fits the words, "De Madame Angot je suis la fille. — Pall Mall Gazette. ' ' ' ") •
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 296, 9 October 1883, Page 5
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