IIIFカラー高解像度
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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166 TUNA
large presents to the monasteries. They asked me, there-
fore, not to be so suspicious.
I said it was difficult not to be suspicious when they
persistently kept us at such a distance. I then addressed
them in regard to religion, and asked them if they had ever
heard that we interfered with the religions of the people
of India. They admitted that we did not interfere, but
they maintained, nevertheless, that it was to preserve their
religion that they adhered to their determination to keep
us out.
As the Buddhist religion nowhere preaches this
seclusion, it was evident that what the monks wished
to preserve was not their religion, but their priestly
influence. This was the crux of the whole situation.
And it entirely bore out what , Mr. Nolan, the Coin-
missioner of Darjiling, had observed many years before*
that it was " the breaking of the beggars' bowl " that was
in question, the loss of these presents from Mongolians and
others.
So far the conversation, in spite of occasional bursts
from the monks, had been maintained with perfect good- ~
humour ; but when I made a sign of moving, and said that
I must be returning to Tuna, the monks, looking as black
as devils, shouted out : No, you won't ; you'll stop here."
One of the Generals said, quite politely, that we had
broken the rule of the road in coming into their country,
and we were nothing but thieves and brigands in occupy-
ing Phari Fort. the monks, using forms of speech which
Captain O'Connor told me were only used in addressing
inferiors, loudly clamoured for us to name a date when we
would retire from Tuna before they would let me leave
the room. The atmosphere became electric. The faces
of all were set. One of the Generals left the room ;
trumpets outside were sounded, and attendants closed
round behind us.
A real crisis was on us, when any false step might
be fatal. I told Captain O'Connor, though there was really
no necessity to give such a warning to anyone so im-
perturbable, to keep his voice studiously calm, and to
* See p. 63.
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