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[Japan has 73,759 Buddhist priests, "most of whom," says a / Christian missionary, "are grossly ignorant, and many of them / lead scandalous lives."]
O Buddha, had you but foreknown / The vices of your priesthood / It would have made you twist and moan / As any wounded beast would.