Christianity in Ceylon

The sketch of the Buddhist superstition will be found to differ in many essential particulars from its aspect as described in other countries of the East but my object has been to present the features of Buddhism as it exists in Ceylon; and for this purpose I have availed myself largely of the observation and experience of those Christian missionaries who have made the religion of the natives and the sacred books in which it is embodied an object of patient and profound investigation. I belive that the account which I have given will be found to be not only more copious but more correct than any similar notice which has hitherto been published of the popular superstitions of the Singhalese. The same observations apply to the chapter which treats of the Brahmanical system as cultivated by the Tamils of Ceylon; though in its details it presents but few variations from the tenets and practice of Hindooism generally on the continent if India.