subjects, so often did I rejoin with some inquiry about Buddhism or a lamasery I wished to visit.
I soon began to feel excessively nervous, and told my men that we had better leave Tse-tang as soon as possible; but Phurchung assured me that I need have no fear, that furthermore the ponies absolutely required rest, so that we must stay here a few days.
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CANE BRIDGE ON THE RUNGIT RIVER.
The day after our arrival at Tse-tang I went on the roof of our house, and was able to see a broad stretch of the surrounding country. To the north of the town was the Gonpoi ri, one of the favourite resorts of Shenrezig (Avalokiteswara), and where, according to tradition, the monkey king and the goblin raised their family of monkeys, from which ultimately descended the Tibetan race.[1]
- ↑ This legend is told in the thirty-fourth chapter of the 'Mani kambum,' and our author gives an abstract of it. I have translated the full original text in my 'Land of the Lamas,' p. 355 et sqq.—(W. R.)
