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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引用情報
318 IMPRESSIONS AT LHASA
Besides these visits to monasteries and temples, we
also saw something of the Tibetans socially during our
stay in Lhasa, and Captain Walton, through his skill in
medicine, attracted many hundreds to his hospital, and
was able to get on terms of intimacy with unofficial
Tibetans of the highest position. Many would come and
dine with us, for the Tibetans, though they have the
ordinary class distinctions which are found in every people,
have not those rigid caste barriers which are such a
hindrance to social intercourse in India. Even the ladies
were very nearly induced by the persuasive Captain
O'Connor to come to tea, and the wives of the Councillors
had actually accepted an invitation, when at the last
moment shyness overtook them. Women are much to
the fore in Tibet, and have great influence with their
husbands, so we especially regretted not having seen
them.
The Tibetans, though they have their reputation for
seclusiveness, are not by nature unsociable. We found
them quite the reverse, and Kawaguchi says that they
were originally a people highly hospitable to strangers."
This more natural sentiment was, he says, superseded by
one of fear and even of antipathy, as the result of an
insidious piece of advice which, probably prompted by
some policy of its own, the Government of China gave to
Tibet, and which was to the effect that if the Tibetans
allowed the free entrance of foreigners Buddhism would
be destroyed and replaced by Christianity. The people
had, too, the idea that we sought their gold-mines.
Whatever seclusive feeling they may have had, they
abandoned it when the Treaty was concluded. They
came to our gymkhanas, and wondered why only the
first should be given the prize when all the rest had
covered exactly the same distance. They watched with
wonder Vernon Magniac and other inveterate sportsmen
pulling fish out of the river by pieces of string attached
to long sticks. They watched theatrical performances,
and marvelled at our display of fireworks ; and they did a
magnificent business with us in the sale, not only of
supplies for the troops, but also of innumerable curios,
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