"They Have Rolls Or Cylinders Inscribed With Their Prayers, Which They
Twirl Round On An Axis, Continually Pronouncing These Mystic
Words,
and they believe that all the prayers on these rolls are virtually
pronounced at each turn of the roll;
The religion of the Dalai-Lama,
is a branch of the Shamanian and Braminical superstitions, and has for
its foundation the Manichaean doctrine of the two principles, which
Manes attempted to incorporate into the Christian religion, so that it
is no wonder the practices of the followers of the Dalai-Lama should
resemble those of the Manichaean and Nestorian Christians." - Forst.
Voy. and Disc. 105.
SECTION XXVIII.
Of sundry Nations, and of certain People who used to eat their Parents.
I am convinced that these Jugurs, who are mixed with Christians and
Mahometans, have arrived at the knowledge and belief of one God, by
frequent disputations with them. This nation dwells in cities, which were
brought under subjection to Zingis, who gave his daughter in marriage to
their king. Even Caracarum is in a manner in their territories. The whole
country of Prester John and of Vut or Unc, his brother, lay round the
territories of the Jugurs, only that the subjects of the former inhabited
the pasture lands on the north, while the Jugurs dwelt among the mountains
to the south. As the Moals have adopted the writing of the Jugurs, these
latter are the chief Scribes among the Tartars, and almost all the
Nestorians are acquainted with their letters.
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