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 Bk. II. Ch. II. CHALDEAN TEMPLES. 15i^ Babylonian forms, though we as yet can only pick up here and there the missing links of the chain of evidence which connects the one with the other. We know, however, that Buddhism is essentially the re- ligion of a Turanian people, and it has long been suspected that there wts some connection between the Magi of Central Asia and the priests of that religion, and that some of its forms at least were elaborated in 55. Representation of a Temple. (From a Bas-relief from Koyunjik.) the valley of the Euphrates. If the architectural investigation is fully carried out, I feel convinced Ave shall be able to trace back to their source many things which hitherto have been unexplained mysteries, and to complete the history of this form of temple and of the religion to which it belonged, from the Bowariyeh at Wurka, built 2000 years B. c, to the Temple of Heaven, erected in the city of Pekin within the limits of the present century.