Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1916 — Buddha's Poor Guess. [ARTICLE]

Buddha's Poor Guess.

At the entrance of the lamasery are eight large monuments, which contain the ashes of eight Buddhas. Bong years ago, at the beginning of the Ming dynasty, after hard fighting, the Tibetans were driven back from Chinese territory, which they hart overrun for hundreds of miles. When the victorious Chinese general reached Kumbum, says the Christian Herald, he sent for these eight Buddhas and said to them: “You can read the future; can you tell me when you are going to. die?” One-of them, shrewd enough to understand the general’s mind, said: “Tomorrow.” "No,” said the general, “it will be today.” And it was.