working lama, might agitate for more yak butter in the Chinese tea, But who gives the butter and would the frisky yak understand and appreciate the agitation for more milk ud, therefore, more butter?
There is now some discussion to increase the member for Stepney's salary from £2,000 to £5,000 per year, and this includes quite long Fecesses. If the humble, soul-satisfied lama discovered that the Hongurable Member for Stepney was receiving £5,000 or Rsi60,000 every year for ticking up for Limehouse and demanding the rights of Labour, he would still quietly turn iis prayer-wheel and repeat "Om Mani Pah Me Hum" and leave civilization to go on Increasing its taxes to support its madness, The ama may and does bow down to gods of wood and stone. but he has -quletly and silently built up a philosophy that enables him to dispense with a Chancellor of the Exchequer, labour disputes or exorbitant taxation.
In my study of the Tibetan language an old black ama comes to help me day by day. Religion, -as a sub-_ ject for discussion is always verdant, Dut sometimes we discuss other things, and among them, the walk and conversation of the' red-robed lama. Yesterday a yellow lama call ed and we discussed, "among other things, the Tibetan priesthood. The first slop, apparently, in the Tibetan priesthood 1s what Is termed a "shaved 'The' boy is then put in charge of a chos-trim ba or religious instructor, and begins the four steps upward, which are as follows: (a) to approach virtue, which calls for the observance of only eight vows; (b) the pattern
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