Are the Tibetans a praying people? A line of a rhyme I learnt as boy runs thus: "I often say my prayers, but do I ever pray!" The Tibetans fully agree with the first part. They often say their prayers and get other men or other things to say them for them. They are a great people at saying prayers. The dawn of the morning is breaking and you bear him mumbling at his prayers in hie tent or his cell. You meet him on the street and his lips are moving and counting his bead: at the same time. He is on horseback and ambling along the road mumbling his brayera At the shop counter as he scans the goods and bargains the price, he mutters his prayers in the intervals He gathers round the little crowd, listens to the conversation and all the time it is "O mani, O mani, 0 mani"—too lazy to repeat the "QO mani-pad-me
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