After Iwo-Weeks Fast, Adherents Enjoy Wines and Delicacies:
Reinearnation of Dalai Lama Rumoured Be Tarra Tochionlu, May 17.
Religion may be an opiate to people bout when mixed, gs IN is in the Land of the Lamas, with good ham sand-Welles, Chinese sweet meats, border sausages and Chenglu spirits, It loses a great deal of its dangerous effect fu the unsuspecting inhabitants of the frontier. Tachienlu has been en ste to-day and hundreds of children and thousands of people dressed in their very best spent the day at the different Inmaseries, Wherever dishes and tents could be Lorrowed they were borrowed and alt yesterday, Sunday, elaborate prepara. tons were made for this, the great day of the fast, Lamaism has been Successful, at least In one direction, namely, in popularizing religion and the ordinary Inhabltants on the Root of the World do love and appreciate religious festival with lots of wine Gnd cakes thrown in, The present fast "started two, weeks "ago and finished to-day. Year by year this festival Is Uecoming more and more popular and this year it touched high month, Fa Hsien and Hsuen Chiang, two widely travelled Buddhists. have written on Tibetan fasts. "Is there, tone might ask, any relation whatever between the Christian calendar and that followed by the lamas? There is similarity in feasts; is there a similarity in origin?
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