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Title: The critic in the Occident
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George Hamlin, 1952-
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Publisher: San Francisco : P. Elder & Co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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inlaid glass work. It seems as thoughthere was no end to the rows on rows of Buddhas inevery conceivable position. Interspersed among themare tall poles from which float long streamers of bam-boo bearing painted historical pictures, includingthose of the capture of the pagoda by the British.Thousands crowd these platforms. Some offer giftsto various shrines, others say prayer after prayer, stillothers strike bells to give warning to evil spirits thatthey have offered up their petitions to Buddha, othershang eagerly on the words of fortune tellers. All buyfood and drink and the whole place suggests in itsgood cheer a country picnic rather than a pilgrimageto the greatest Buddhist shrine in the world. When one has left the pagoda he bears the mem-ory of magnificent decorations, of vast crowds, butof little real reverence. The great golden pagoda it-self is the dominating feature in every view of Ran-goon, just as the Washington monument dominatesall other structures in Washington. (92)
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