Buddhist monks, then as now, took the same three vows of celibacy, poverty, and obedience, which are taken by the members of all the Catholic orders.

In addition to this, _all_ the Buddhist priests are mendicants.

They shave their heads, wear a friar's robe tied round the waist with a rope, and beg from house to house, carrying their wooden bowl in which to receive boiled rice.

The old monasteries of India contain chapels and cells for the monks.

The largest, however, had accommodation for only thirty or forty; while at the present time a single monastery in Thibet, visited by MM.