In the month of May, 1897, I was ready to embark on my journey, which promised nought but danger and uncertainty. I went about taking leave of my friends and relatives in Tokyo. Endless were the kind...

I was lately reading the Holy Text of the Sa??harma-Pu?dar?ka (the Aphorisms of the White Lotus of the Wonderful or True Law) in a Samsk?? manuscript under a Bo?hi-tree near M?ga-??va (S?ran??h), Benares....

I was lately reading the Holy Text of the Saḍḍharma-Puṇdarīka (the Aphorisms of the White Lotus of the Wonderful or True Law) in a Samskṛṭ manuscript under a Boḍhi-tree near Mṛga-Ḍāva (Sāranāṭh), Benares....