The Archive · 1934

Curiouser and Curiouser

Below the wind-horse was another charm phrase, "Ba-za-gu-ru" which [is merely the name of Ur-jen-beh-ma, the founder of Lamaism. The lama's Bible comprises 108 volumes and demands several yak to transport, so (0 benefit every creeping, crawling, walking thing, Ba-2a epitome: zed the ponderous Ganjur into twelve comfortable volumes (the. shorter Bible) and in them he collected all, the blessings and benedictions contained in the larger volumes. So, when Drendong's five coloured charm flags wave in the morning breeze ne seeking escape from the six torments and claiming all the blessings, the lama's shorter Bible. From the simplicity of Paul and Silas singing at midnight in their prison cell we turned again to the intricacies of Lamaism. "But why five colours in the charm flags?" "Is It merely ple-

ance?" "What a comparatively simple tureague of have, they any signidethe Occidental lives, untos he eats or drinks too mich on. St. Andrew's night! Drendong's world, night and day, is inhabitated by things seen and unseen, cruel and kind, malicious and friendly, who-try to pull him up and who try to pull him down, He can appreciate to the th

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