Five hundred Tibetan lamas and 'a small mixture of Chinese priests have spent the past three days blowirg trumpets, beating drums, banging gongs, and reading prayers. Many Chinese soldiers are supposed have died on the border during the past few years so three days public prayers were made, that their spirits may have an easy entrance into the Buddhist heaven.
If noise will get them there they] fare no doubt now having a happy' time and enjoying what the Tibetans call "Dewajen," The Land of Bliss.
Sen Han, the Deputy Border Commissioner, made a request to the Head of the Buddhist Mission to nat prayers might be made {for the old border warriora who had died on the frontier and that three days be alloted to the task. To meet the expense of this religious perfor-maree the border exchequer paid out the sum of 2,000 rupees. Five bundyed rupees were paid daily, a rupee to each lama, for the energy expended in blowing the trumpets banging the gongs, and beating the drums. Five hundred rupees were spent in rice gruel, tsamba, and Datter-tea,
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