The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s2.13

c31.s2.13

In the course of ages the corruption of the church increased, and Nepāl now presents the strange spectacle of so-called monasteries swarming with the families of married 'monks' engaged in all sorts of secular occupations.¹ The spontaneous progress of the decay of Buddhism, which had been operating in Nepāl for centuries, has been much hastened by the action of the Gurkha Government, to which Buddhist rites are obnoxious; and there is good reason to believe that in the course of a few generations Nepālese Buddhism will be almost extinct.