[The lama] began in Urdu the tale of the Lord Buddha, but, borne by his own thoughts, slid into Tibetan and long-droned texted from a Chinese book of the Buddha's life. The gentle tolerant folk looked on reverently. All India is full of holy men stammering gospels in strange tongues; shaken and consumed in the fires of their own zeal; dreamers, babblers and visionaries: as it has been from the beginning and will continue to the end.
Rudyard Kipling, Kim [London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1958. p. 45f.]
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