Two other tests were then offered. Several long heavy pages of the Gan.jur wore placed on a table. The oracle was invited to ask Bo-ha-ra to make these pages move, but Be-ha-ra was apparently "nothing do.' 'The next test was inflicting injury the body and if the Chinese priest was really the oracle of Be-ha-ra no harm would come to him. Needless to say the "Iron head priest' failed miserably and caused no small chagrin among his followers.
The wily Tibetan lamas, no doubt wanting to let the Chinese priest down softly, suggested that perhaps he was the oracle of the idol known as the "King body five." Further tests proved the Chinas: priest unable to move either himself or the deity. Finally the lamas suggested that he was perhaps the oracle of "Shu-den" that is the "idol with strength." This also failed, ither to oblige or function, and the Chinese priest all the way from Poking to Lhasa is now more or less in disgrace and his poor priestly retinue has hardly courage to hold. up its head. The priest's chances of a free passage through Tibet to Lhasa are now very much questioned and people are now asking, "Is he really a Buddhist priest."
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