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During this visit he stayed in the tent of a Mongol named Mahabul, who lived there with his wife and an only son, a lama. They were all much addicted to the use of whisky. 'October 14, '71.
The lama had forbidden him to set blankets or get food. 'I know I know. Who but I? she cackled. 'We who go down to the burning-ghats clutch at the hands of those coming up from the River of Life with full water-jars yes, brimming water-jars. I did the boy wrong. He lent thee his strength? It is true that the old eat the young daily. Stands now we must restore him.
On it are two or more dirty lamas with a great barrel from which they ladle out refuse for the dogs, for according to their religious beliefs they accumulate great merit for themselves if they prolong the life of anything, be it bird, beast, or insect. In the river valley, just below the Lama City, numbers of dogs can always be found, for the dead priests usually are thrown there to be devoured.
'Will it travel to Benares? said the lama. 'Assuredly. Else why should we come? Enter, or we are left, cried Kim. 'See! shrilled the Amritzar girl. 'He has never entered a train. Oh, see! 'Nay, help, said the cultivator, putting out a large brown hand and hauling him in. 'Thus is it done, father. 'But but I sit on the floor. It is against the Rule to sit on a bench, said the lama.
All the Orient was familiar to Muzio: he had traversed Persia and Arabia, where the horses are more noble and beautiful than all other living creatures; he had penetrated the depths of India, where is a race of people resembling magnificent plants; he had attained to the confines of China and Tibet, where a living god, the Dalai Lama by name, dwells upon earth in the form of a speechless man with narrow eyes.
That is the disease of persons who can never identify themselves with the successive improvements born of reason and experience; worthy persons who ought to be sent to China, or to the dominions of the Grand Lama, where they would certainly be more at home than in Europe.
The Dewan's brother was very nervously counting his beads, and never raised his eyes while I kept mine steadily upon him. He suggested most of the queries, every one of which took several minutes, as he was constantly interrupted by the Kajee, who was very fat and stupid: the Lama scarcely spoke, and the bystanders never. The interpreter did not read the last line, which stated that Dr.
In Transbaikalia I tried to form the order of Military Buddhists for an uncompromising fight against the depravity of revolution." He fell into silence and began drinking cup after cup of tea as strong and black as coffee. "Depravity of revolution! . . . Has anyone ever thought of it besides the French philosopher, Bergson, and the most learned Tashi Lama in Tibet?"
A Lama, who is the head man of the place, came out to greet us, with his family and a whole troop of villagers; they were the same class of people as I have elsewhere described as Cis-nivean Tibetans, or Bhoteeas; none had ever before seen an Englishman, and I fear they formed no flattering opinion from the specimen now presented to them, as they seemed infinitely amused at my appearance, and one jolly dame clapped her hands to her sides, and laughed at my spectacles, till the hills echoed.
Long and formal were the farewells, thrice ended and thrice renewed. The Seeker he who had invited the lama to that haven from far-away Tibet, a silver-faced, hairless ascetic took no part in it, but meditated, as always, alone among the images.
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