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Southern Tibet : vol.4 |
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PILGRIMAGE FROM NAKCHU TO MANASAROVAR.
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and 100 yaks with them, from which they get milk and butter and occasionally flesh. However, they spare their own flocks as much as possible and kill wild yaks, antelopes or even kyangs. Not every year, but certainly once in two years such a caravan of pilgrims starts from Nakchu. Different families agree to keep together on the journey, as small companies are more exposed to attacks from robbers and thieves. Some caravans accomplish the journey in one year, others in two. The wandering village of our man even calculated three years for the whole pilgrimage. They used to stay some 2 0 days at every place where the grass was good, otherwise only 4 or 5 days. For the march alone they had needed two months from Manasarovar to our Cant, LXXV, and had about 90 marches from here to Nakchu. At the Sacred Lake they had spent two months, and had wandered only once round the lake which had taken three days. The district around our Cam, LXXV he called Mogbo-dimrap, and the small black mountains south of the camp, Dining-- loftchang-, reminding one of the Dirung-ungola mentioned by the shepherds of Bogar-yung. Regarding the stations on the pilgrims' road from Nakchu to the Sacred Lake, he obviously did not remember their names. At any rate the names he mentioned did not seem to be reliable. However, from Mogbo-dimraa to Nakchu he gave the following : Mogbo-tamchuk, a name that we had heard before without being able to locate it ; Geru-takar, a white mountain ; Moga-bende, Mog-a-tasuk,
a mountainous region, Ling-kang--tso, Moga-laknak, Mog,a-taksum, Kanchung-karlej5, Shinisuk-naruk, a large valley, Kolok-tso, a large lake, Nor geret, a lake, where curiously enough the Mongolian word »nor» enters instead of »tso», Sere-yenkär, a mountain, Gar, Bum, reminding one of the Bum-tso, Andar-lsaka, a salt lake, Sensung -
tsaka, a salt lake, Chorgi - tsaka, a salt lake, Tsaki - tsaizgo, a river, Chejcha, a region »with mountains of sand» , which seems to indicate sand-dunes , though such formations are nearly unknown in the interior of Tibet, Tso-gar, and finally,
Nakchu-tsang''o.
On the road from Cam, LXXV to the Sacred Lake he remembered the following names of which several are correct and have been mentioned in Vol. II and Vol. III, whereas others cannot be identified : Argo-chokmar, Tagar-dongshö,
Kartse-marlse, Kea-shokta, a red mountain, Shakangsham, a large mountain,
Skara-darlum with the lake Skara yum-lso, Sanshen-sanshung, Shabuk-nyarise, a salt lake, Chimbo-ka-la, a large ice-mountain, Gäbji-sumtang, a mountain with a plain at its base, Rakyor-tsaka, a salt lake, Penshin penshung , a mountain, Sälung-
loIchang, Nachebo, Maryum-la, Tokchen-lokchung, Lami-la, Gumenang, Pilunglopchang, and, finally Hamchu, a brook near Tso-movang or the Sacred Lake. — This latter part of the road is quite clear and marked by such well-known objects as Shakangsham, Ka-la, Maryum-la and Tokchen. The first part is more difficult. It seems, however, to be situated north of Chaïut-tso and .Selling-tso, two lakes
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