The big three in Tachienly, the Dorjedra, Lhamodze and the Amcho have somehow received new leases of life. They have whitewashed their buildings and redecorated their temples and reorganized their services and Lamaism along the border is now moving forward with a high step. With official recognition, financial assistance and popular acclamation the lamas and drabas are rising to the occasion and regaining something of lost foothold among the Chinese and Tibetans in this religious city.
Something more than' a new coat lor paint, how er, is necessary and this necessity is supplied in the form of an occasional devil dance or a Power Bestowal Festival. Last Sunday the populace flocked to Dorjedr outside the south gate to receive or obtain power. The different lamaseries and the different sects in Tachienlu during different parts of the year hold this Power Bestowa Festival. But this—year "Lamaism has made^wpe iny: tion and ae commodation" Sunday, being a public holiday, has been chosen as the day of the festival. Always a popular festival, it has now become more and being held on u Sunday, a public holiday, the population moves toward the lamasery en masse. The lamas along the frontier are not only out for notoriety but popularity d they know how to get it
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