common with many tribal people these nomads hate to face the cinema The Litang ladies on the hills round their village deftly turned their Tneks and ne photographer had to be content with close~up of their elaborate. silver" ornaments aimeulty, To move west was Impossible as that brought them Into Lhasa governed territory and the Reds, It seems, had no desire to go there, The country to the south, however was still open and they de-elded to march through Nyarong towards the great Litang lamasery. When last heard of they were making. in that direction, and their ultimate destination remains to be seen, Fastern Tibet Is something shape like a huge triangle, one side forming the northwest caravan rond to Lhasa, the lower side forming the great pilgrim road to Lhasa and Tuning, southwest and the Yangtze forming the other side and running from north to south, The trinnele forms the most populous part of the Land of the Lamas and is scattered fan over with numerous lamaseries Taree and small, The three points of the triangle, are, Tachianlu, Derge fand Chunatien, Tt is from this part fof Lamaland that most of the drabas fand lamas come who spend a num~ ber of years in Drebung. Sera and eighteen of which are very powerful and dangerous, and fifteen of them attack children of either sex, his life is one long struggle for existence, From am. till 5 pm—no six-hour day for the lama who prays he Is doing something to hold evil in check, help a struggling humanity through the Slough of Despond, keep his own spirit bright and cheery and Aight and overcome a demon hierar chy which he has drawn and pie-tured In every colour of the rainbow. The demon possessed Gadarerie in Mark V who had enough evil spirits in him to destroy 2,000 swine will Jet us see something of what the Jama in the Forbidden Land imagines Is up against.
Is it any wonder that the lama, in hundreds and thousands, spend days and nights in a dark and lonely cell using preyer, meditation and contem. piation to overcome and destroy the wicked demon that is driving hu-inanity and civilization to destruction. He has a method and he quietly and patiently directs it against every evil Goldan.
Large Resident Population Drebung has a resident draba population of 7.700 and that number fon occasion rises to 10,000. Tt is the Targost, richest and most highly organized lamasery on the Roof of the World, The name. simply means, Dre (rice) and Bung, (mound), Mound of Rice. The Tamas in this famous institution include Buriats, Mongols nnd Chinese, the majority coming from Enstern Tibet and Tarong, the country now heinie over-yun by the Communists, "After spending some days in Kanze de-Vouring al! there was to be had, the Red force turned south through Nyarong—formerly a petty state with its own King, directly under Lhasa rule like the Kingdom of Mull." For rugieed beauty Nyarong is one of the most picturesque spots in Sikani and through it flows the Nya River past Hohow. It Is also quite famous for numerous lamaseries.
We would gather that the Inhabit ants of many of these religious me stitutions et very little warning of the Communistic onrush. What happened at the Guzhi lamasery a few days ago, and only two days from Tachienlu, is happening allover Nyarong. The draba, hundreds and thousands of them, sit quietly in their solitary cells, peacefully meditating on the seven stages of perfection, which are as follows: the white illuminated stage: the exalted singe of noble birth: the stage through sight; the fine subtle stage the stage which Is free from passion and desire; the finished and perfect-ind the eighth stage. day is very long as part of his devotions are performed Before the rising sun, and if he is a religious nian, his mind is occupied with different forms of strategy, to Thousands of starving Reds run rampant over the country shown on map, moving from one point to Tamaseries and villages succumb to
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