From TIBETAN MARCHES, by Andre Migot

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  "The reader will have realized that I hold unorthodox views about missionary work, but it 
really does seem to me appalling, even if one looks at it only from the missionaries' point of 
view, that a man of character and intelligence, who could be so useful in some other sphere, 
should be allowed to waste his whole life in a place like Taofu.  Our missions in Tibet, like 
our missions in Cambodia, have been a failure.  Their original object,the preaching of 
Christianity to the natives, has been for practical purposes abandoned, the missionaries 
having realized that it is a hopeless task to try and convert Buddhists in either country.  They 
have therefore been reduced to proselytizing the Chinese, who are the least religious people 
in the world but who are often prepared to go through the motions of being converted.
   And, anyway, why should we force an alien doctrine down the throats of races like the 
Tibetans, the Cambodians, and Burmese, and the Indians?  They are deeply religious, have a 
vivid apprehension of the divine, and belong to civilizations steeped in traditions of 
spirituality.  Their dogmas rival those of Christianity in their depth and piety; their saints 
and their philosophers rival ours in stature.
   There is more missionary work to be done, and it is better worth doing, in the West, where 
religion is only a facade and spirituality has long disappeared, where civilization now rests 
on purely materialisitc foundations, where the pugilist, and film star, and the millionaire 
occupy the exalted niches reserved in the East for the hermit, the yogi and the saint.  It would 
really make more sense if India and Tibet sent missionaries to Europe, to try and lift her out 
of the materialistic rut in which she is bogged down, and to reawaken the capacity for the 
religious feeling which she lost several centuries ago.  But Buddhists do not go in for 
missionary work; they are too tolerant, they have too much respect for other people's 
convictions to want to superimpose their own upon them."

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