The birth risks In the land of the lamas are simply appalling and this no doubt accounts for the entire absence of insurance companies. So important is the idea of birth that my large Tibetan dictionary devotes several pages to the subject. There fare viviparous, oviparous, moisture, humidity, apparitional, supernational posterior and anterior births and rebirth, and every single one of them stamped with the hallmark of desire, sin, sorrow and death, No one can hold the lama responsible for his own birth but he is not going to be responsible for the birth of any other, Like Paul of old, however, the "wretched lama ries, "For I'know that in my flesh dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find nol." And so there are 7,700 lamas and drabas in Drebung and 5,500 Tamas and drabas In Sera and 3,300 Jamas and drabas in Golden and hundreds of thousands of lamas scattered all over lamaland and all religiously. exorcised over the horible question of birth,
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