A loiter arrived a few days ago from Chungking reporting the reine jesrnation of the Dalai Lama. somewhere Inthe foothills round the Famous Int, Omei, The child is supposed to have been born in some oer home and apparently has satis fed. those who know and recognize the marks of @ Living Buddha, Such Information, if true, will soon spread, and ina short time it" should be Known along the border. In the long Tine of thirteen Dalai Lamas, history 'The Jamas in the Forbidden Land have iven the accumulation of merit a very wide and convenient range. Merit' may be obtained by inviting the lamas to one's home to read the snered books and repeat their voluminous prayers, by circum ambulating any and every holy object; by making mud images and erecting mont mounds, by fasting and prayer, by donating gifts to the black, red yellow lamaseries and by turning ithe prayer wheel, counting the rosary. fond' Tepeating "Oh Mant Pad Me Hum, Binding to Nothing Lamas and drabas round Tachienlu fore neither ashamed of their religion nor their worldly pleasures. Religion the Tibetan draba understands it Is something that binds him to nothing. In the fasting festival "which ended to-day there were all kinds of religious dances games and sports. The young Tibetan women of Ta ehleniu were called upon to dance their old-time folk dances while the Targe audience sat round in groups enjoying their wine, the dances and the cakes 'And nature was very kind. 'The morning opened bright and beautiful a glorious sun shone from a clear, Dlue sky, To conclude a twonwoek' fast' the day was perfect. On. this Inst, great day of the fast, relatives of those who have been fasting go out in state to bring home their friends, "Daughters bring home their mothers and nieces bring home their aunts, Women og a general rule are rot permitted to reside in Tibetan Tamaseries but during this time of fasting the hard and fast rule Inid aside and many women take up their residence in the comfortable cells of the different priests, Similar to Other Religions Whatever may be \the origin, spread and history of Lamaism there ore many striking similarities in its religious calendar to that of the churches in other countries, specially of the Episcopal and Catholic churenes, "Lent as 2 general rule coincides with the Tibetan fourth moon which Frequently occurs in the month of April, The lama calendar also has lig Feast of Flowers; its chase and expulsion of the "Seapegoat." the Demon of Bad Luck; Feast of the Dead, All Souls" Day; the Picture Feast; and the Feast of Lanterns.
But the fourth moon, the Earth Happy month, 1s outstanding in the Tibetan religious calendar. The Tibetang leave their homes, the lamas desert their temples, the drabas forsake their cells, the hermits re~ ounce their eaves and all sock to dwell in tents, at Toast during part fof the fourth moon, Special worship 8 algo made to ihe Great Piticr, Jenrehzeo of whom' all the Dalai Lamas are reincarnations, Jenrehzce, according to Lamaism, looks down in pity and merey on a weary, strugeling, sinful humanity and offers his help and guidance in escaping from the Wheel of Life and in reaching Dehwajen, the lama's paradise. Jen= yeh zee, more than Jambehyang or Chanadorje—the three great incarnations in the Land" of the Lamas—is prayed to by Tibetans all over the Roof of the World. From all over the land of Tibet, men and women, lama and. nomad, pray 0 Jentehiee, whose Incarnation om earth the Dalai Lama, and who seeks fulfil the benevolent purposes of the Great Pitier.
Fasting, confession and listening to the law read by some cultured lama, and the doing of innumerable wood deeds, Is devoutly "observed every fourth moon slong the frontier, Among these different forms, however, of religious exercise fasting seems to occupy an Important place. Both Chinese and Tibetan authorities note the numerous fast days—lamas and Arabas in the larger institutions are supposed to fast four days every
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