The Archive · 1927

Cash for Repentance

"When Drugu Dolu again reached terra firma and again recovered his} world-sense, he sat down and carefully wrote out all the messages those in the six regions of Nyal-wa had asked asked him to convey to their friends. The Incarnation remains in hig temple in Jarong, but} hho has sent the drabas to Tachienlu land other places with the message: The common plea from Nyal-wa is that the living relatives will be more virtuous—and more virtue takes the shape not of being more honest, or more upright, or more faithful, or more moral, bu of burning more butter lamps in the temples and giving more funds to the Iamaseries and inviting the lamas to read more prayers. This they believe will make things easier for them in Nyal-wa.

'Two days ago, the lamasery_at Dorjedra, belonging to the Red Sect, lit' one thousand yak-butter-lamps, no doubt to appease the scale-god who watches the balance the lower world. In the meantime, the two drabas who brought the Incarnations messages..have received little gifts and small

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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