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   the processions, the litanies, the holy water, all these are analogies   
   between the Buddhists and ourselves.   
      
   Huc explained the similarities in the borrowings by the Tibetans from   
   the West. But Tibetan Buddhism has an old history that connects it to   
   the Buddhist monasteries of China and India with ancient prescriptions   
   of ritual and worship, and it is implausible it borrowed the practices   
   of a remote creed. It is more likely that the Tibetan and the Catholic   
   rituals have a common source.   
      
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