At the Tibetan New Year is enacted at the Temple the, annual ceremony of purifying the city of the evils of the outgoing year. The Lamas produce a beggar man who is willing, through fanaticism and promise of eternal merit, to risk his life in the strangest of ceremonies. Naked, he clothes himself in, the putrid entrails of animals, with the vile, bloody intestines coiled round his head, neck, arms, and body. He represents the evil, the disease, the ill-luck, and the bad things of last year. He runs out of the Temple door, and the mad populace beat drums and blow trumpets to frighten away the devil in him.
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