Draped in the flowing garments of old India, with a pink muslim toga, which he called "The Robe of Light," looped up on his left shoul der and fastened there with a jeweled pin, an ancient Buddhist priest trod the deck of an ocean liner in New York Harbor. At his feet sa a throng of disciples, catching words of wisdom and blessednes as they fell. Crowding closer cam newspaper reporters, to whom tn ancient one declared that his name was Avagarika Hewarritaina Dharmapala, the central portion of which meant "wanderer," which was what he liked best to be called.
He "had come five times to the U S., having traveled since he was 20, when he forsook wealth and family pride in Ceylon to become a priest. Now he is 77, and bound for London, there to establish a Buddhist temple, that love, unity, service and peace may come into the world.