Up above the guest room is the prayer hall. Windows of coloured glass, lovely hanging lamps, and on the north and east side the wall covered with over 100 little cases with glass fronts each containing an idol which he purchased when
make, for they were all of white in Peking, probably of Japanese metal instead of brass.
On the west side is a little room in which is a huge idol and the Buddha's chief god. It has several heads and arms with another smaller god attached to it, making a very obscene figure. Yet it is this figure which ig supposed to be the test of a man, who is supposed to have his passions and emotions so subdued that as he stands in the presence of this god, he is unmoved. No wonder this god is hidden away in some secret corner of many of the Lamaseries from the view of the priests; only those who have reached the stage of perfection being permitted to see it. Guest rooms for special guests are in the courtyard in front of the prayer room. Lastly the first courtyard from the door contains rooms and stables for pilgrims and minor guests. The buildings stand on the bank of the Yellow River, and quite a distance from any other buildings. All round are fields.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.