donations have been made to the lamaland stil are ignorant of tales of Works, bazaars, lotteries, entertainments, and other means of "raising the wind" when the church funds get low. However, they have other devices and, when the batter and tsamba got' low and the prospect shows signs of resembling the discomforts of Nyal-wa, someone does! Something which startles the ama world. "The idea merely is to stage Something that. will keep lamaism warm and contortable, and keep it before the public gaze. The poor orphan who lost his parents at sea has only a one-man appeal:. the lamas always produce something] that will feed the whole Iamasery. only when a definite effort is foisted on the general. public. that interest ig aroused in the indigent drabas. A procession, a dance, or devil-drive never fail to bring the temple some profit, One message which has special relation to Tachienla is that from the King of Jala. He is not suffering too badly, but he exhorts his relatives to remember their duty to the dead." His request merely one of anticipation and his fear is that his path through the other stages may be retarded unless his home folks remember' their annual subscription—to. the—Dorjedra lamasery. In this they have not been remiss and the lighting of one thousand lamps was their work of virtue.
Pleases Classical history somewhere records a great philosopher asking "more light." Tachienlu is not a large' town, only having twenty thousand people, yet she is erying for "more ight": Apparently, one part of the four hundred million people in China have used more kerosene] than they ought, with the conse-Jquence that another part of the four hundred million have none.
Chungking, it is reported, _helped itself to the stores of kerosene, left, by the "foreign dominators" ' and economic oppressors," with the re-'
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