On our way to the Kokonor, residing in a Lamasery for four days high up in the mountains, they had one day of special prayers, and among the hundreds of black Tibetan tents in the wide valley running down to the deep blue sea Kokonor, dotted here and there were several large white tents where lamas were gathered together holding 8 week of special prayer. The tent we visited would hold about eighty people There were twenty lamas, ten in 8 row, squatted on the ground facing each other, chanting their prayers, ringing belle, beating drums, clanging cymbals, blowing blasts with shells, whilst around them were men and women muttering their '"O-ma-ni's." Men and women with wicked, malicious, evil looks, capable of taking life without any qualms of—oon-
We were not wanted there, and only the escort of the Commissioner made it possible for us to visit them at all—yet there they were saying their prayers. Yes! Tibetans are the greatest praying people in the! world. "They often eay their prayers, but do they ever pray?"
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