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Updated: May 16, 2025
These particular Lamas are said to relish human blood, which they drink out of the cups made from men's skulls. When I left the Gomba my new friends, the Lamas, bowing down to the ground as I departed I walked about the village to examine all there was to be seen. Along the water's edge at the east end of the village stood in a row a number of tumbling-down Choktens of mud and stone.
A large escort took us along a rocky road following the course of the Gakkon River along barren cliffs. We passed hundreds of choktens, large and small, mostly painted red, and mani walls. Then, having descended by a precipitous track on whitish clay-soil, we reached a thickly inhabited district, where stone houses were scattered all over the landscape.
In rare cases, when cremation had been applied, the ashes were collected in a small earthenware urn and deposited in one of the Choktens. The ashes were made into a paste with clay, and then flattened into a medallion on which a representation of Buddha was either stamped from a mould or engraved with a pointed tool. The interior of the houses at Tucker was no better than the outside.
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