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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LAMAS' CATECHISM 313
on his shoulder "; and, to get a degree, some work for
twenty years, with examinations every year. Besides
Tibetans, there were numbers of Mongols, and also some
200 Buriats from Siberia. The Mongols were hard-
working and progressive, but very quick-tempered,
proud, and uppish," and every Mongol had it in him to be
a great leader, like Jenghiz Khan, whose career was, how-
ever, according to Kawaguchi, but a meteoric burst.
Compared with these the Tibetan students, though,
generally speaking, very quiet, courteous, and intelligent,
were lazy and sluggish beyond the powers of Westerners
to imagine," and on account of their laziness very dirty.
Catechism seems to have been their chief study.
The object of the questions and answers is to free the
mind from all worldliness, and to get into the very
bottom of truth, giving no powers to the devils of hell
in the mind." It is by this means, continues Kawaguchi,
111 that the naturally dull and lazy Tibetans are guided to
understand Buddhism, and through it they are, for a half-
civilized nation, very rich in logical ideas. The catechisms,
which I should judge were really more in the nature of
philosophical debates which all Orientals love, were
carried on in a most excited manner. Many texts and
reference books had to be read before anyone could take
part in them, and the catechists were always taught that
the foot must come down so strongly that the door of
hell may be broken open ; and that the hands must make
so great a noise that the voice of knowledge may frighten
the devils all the world over."
Besides studying and being engaged in ceremonial
observances, the monks, however, also carry on business.
M ost of them are engaged in trade ; many are employed in
agriculture, others in cattle-breeding, and sheep-rearing ;
and others, again, in the manufacture of Buddhist articles,
the painting of Buddhist pictures ; while tailors, carpenters,
masons, and shoemakers are also found among the priests.
Those of the higher class live very comfortably, building
their own villas and temples. Some employ as many as
70 or 80 servants.
The lower-class priests, on the other hand, live in a
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