The lama, like the nomad, is a very human individual and no doubt once in a while their thoughts come down from the spiritual to the mundane, Earth, after all is his present dwelling place and it cannot the wholly bad and wicked. It is true the gods Kaye five jewels, but Iso has man, namely, gold, pearls," corals and {aj Among the king's treasures! there are seven things considered very precious and among these there is surely something of beauty for the eye of the heavenly-minded the precious phant, the That the precious wit some influence on the si is proved by the fact that in parts of Enstern Tibet the lamas are getting scarcer and the husbands more numerous. That gold also is precious is proved by the fact that much of that important metal is finding its way to many of the larger lamaseries.
Lamaism by no means is an easy thing and the poor lama has a hard pull in many different directions. Take simply the physical side of lamaism, there are 80 physical per-factions in Buddha. The devoted Jama must be staggered when he thinks of his own imperfections and the apparent spotless perfection of his idol, One will surely sympathize with him, if to his strenuous efforts little magic and trust to a little luck. The his holy efforts after goodness and emptiness frequently uses what are known as the sures, known in Chinese the, "eight genii." As a charm to dispel the evil and entice the good the lama has frequent recourse to the "eight diagrams." Should the Tonely lama' in his solitary cell again think on those. in high sees them with the five insignia, the turban, the parasol, the sword, the
Should he get tired of his laborious and the coloured sandals. thinking and meditating he always at perfect liberty to turn to ing. Apart from the 84,000 religious lectures of Buddha there is an interesting little treatise called the book of eight commandments. Besides these there are the holy scriptures, containing 100 volumes.
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