'A few years passed by and an Incarnation was discovered, born to take the old lama's ' place. However, there was one difference, for the former hermit belonged to the Saja sect, -and the reported Incarnation was a member of the yellow sect. This apparently made no difference. While still quite young, the new hermit took up his duties in the old man's cave. Very soon his converting ability was known and appreciated far and wide, and his services were called for by neighbours in distress. The young hermit, not realizing the importance of his former history, or that he was born for a definite purpose, left his cave and went to reed books for some people living at a distance. Travelling along a narrow, dangerous ledge of rock, the mule carrying his belongings slipped and fell into the river below. His servant, riding behind, ad going on and letting the mule go. To this, how ever, the lama refused to listen. "Come along," said the Mina, "and we will rescue the Travelling along, they reached a point where a descent. could be made to the river. The water was as silent as the cave they. had left behind, and there was no trace whatever of the poor mule.
At this point, the humble servant discoverer that his master was no ordinary person. Though unknown to the servant, the lama knew every top of the country they now were in; he also knew the gods, and spirits, and demons who had their home there. It was the country of the eighteen-storeyed water, the eighteen-storeyed mountain, and the others stick to virtue, and follow virtue, and beg virtue, this lama in n friend of virtue: his lite is supposed to be lived in harmony with virtue The Gehshe has mas tered metaphysics and the important branches of sucred literature; he is the learned man among the Ia-
The Evil of Gossip Tibet has been called "lamaland; Dut it also might be called "hermit Jand." Tt is a land full of religion the visitor may escape other thing Dut he cannot escape this. These Plains are covered with lama-temples, the mountains are full of Tama-caves, In a country to the south-east of Lhasa, there lived a lonely hermit. At the age of 20 he took the serious vow, entered his solitary cell, and there passed his days in solitude, reading and meditating upon his' snered books At the age of seventy, life became burden to the old man: he was no longer able to carry a little wood or fetch a little water. Close confinement had made the hermit old before his time. Near by, there lived an old woman, who, seeing the hermit so frail, kindly' offered together a little wood for him and carry a little water. This she did every day, putting it down at the Jama's coot.
Soon an evil rumour got abroad among the gossips of the district that the cld hermit had renounced his vow and taken unto himself a. wife, Friends of the Lama called on the old man and told him of the evil talk. Naturally, after 50 years of loneliness, daily' struggling to come between his body and the world, the old man was very much upset. To his intimate friends he explained the whole circumstance.
made it hard for him to gather wood and carry water and the old lady kindly had offered to do this for him; that was all. So this, the lama knew what he had todo, Carefully, and together, th prepared a derma, which merely is 'a sacrificial offering presented to evil spirits and demons, Usually, it is made of barley flout has a conical shape, and is held together with yak butter. In the Iamaseries the making of this derma is quite an elaborate affair; in structure it very much resembles, 4 bride's cake, being built several storeys high, and decorated in ferent colours,
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