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1. Because there are no (traditional) initiatic christian orders since the end of the Knights Templar and the Chruch became very hostile towards esoterism in general. Think about it, what is the christian equivalent to Sufism nowadays? All that is left is mysticism, which is about passive experiences, and not and initiatic path.
2. Initially he tought Buddhism had anti-traditional elements and was the embodiment of a revolt of the warrior caste (Buddha himself was a Kshatriya) against the brahmana caste. Probably, he was also influenced by distorted views of it propagated in the West, like the idea that Buddhism was against the caste system.
He changed his mind on the subject after being conviced by other authors, like Marco Pallis and Ananda Coomaraswamy that Buddhism was a fully orthodox traditional doctrine.