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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
38 MANNING'S VISIT TO LHASA
break the bottle of lavender-water." Having delivered
his present to the Grand Lama, he took off his hat, and
humbly gave his clean-shaved head to lay his hands
upon.
This ceremony over, he sat on a cushion, not far from
the Lama's throne, and had suché brought them. But "the
Lama's beautiful and interesting face and manner engrossed
almost all his attention." His face was, he thought,
poetically and affectingly beautiful. He was at that time
about seven years old, and had the simple and unaffected
manners of a well-educated, princely child. Sometimes,
particularly when he looked at Manning, his smile almost
approached to a gentle laugh. No doubt," natively re-
marks Manning, "my grim beard and spectacles somewhat
excited his risibility."
The little Grand Lama addressed a few remarks to
Manning, speaking in Tibetan to the Chinese interpreter,
the interpreter in Chinese to Manning's Chinese Munshi,
and the Munshi in Latin to Manning. I was extremely
affected by this interview with the Lama," says Manning.
I could have wept through strangeness of sensation."
Here in Lhasa, as at Gyantse, Manning had many
applications made to him for medicine, and he treated
both Chinese and Tibetans. But spies also came, and
certainly," says Manning, my bile used to rise when
the hounds looked into my room." The Tartar General
detested Europeans. They were the cause, he said, of all
his misfortunes. Sometimes he said Manning was a
missionary, and at other times a spy. "These Europeans
are very formidable ; now one man has come to spy the
country he will inform others. Numbers will come, and
at last they will be for taking the country from us." So
argued the Mandarins, and, indeed, there were rumours
that the Chinese meant to execute Manning. He had
always fully expected this possibility, and writes : I never
could, even in idea, make up my mind to submit to an
execution with firmness and manliness."
Yet, on the whole, he was not badly treated. He
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