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
CHINESE AND TIBETANS 321
Summarizing the characteristics of the Tibetans, we
may say, then, that while they are affable outwardly and
crafty within, as most dependent people have to be ; while
they are dirty and lazy ; and while their religion is de-
graded, and they show no signs of either intellectual or
spiritual progress, yet at heart they are not an unkindly or
unsociable people, and they have undoubtedly strong
religious feelings. Immorality is not entirely unchecked.
The Lama who married a nun had his official career
blighted. Ministers have been known to refuse their
salaries as they had enough to live on without. There is
often much affection and staunch friendship among the
Tibetans. And there are in them latent potentialities for
good, which only await the right touch to bring them into
being.
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Of the attitude of the Chinese to the Tibetans I took
particular note, for I was myself a Resident in an Indian
Native State, and I was interested in observing the attitude
of a Chinese Resident in a Native State of the Chinese
Empire. One point which immediately struck me about
it was its tone of high-handedness. A century ago
Manning had remarked how the haughty Mandarins
were somewhat deficient in respect," and I noted the
same thing. Every British Resident gives a chair to an
Indian gentleman who comes to visit him, but I found
that the Chinese Resident did not give a chair to even
the Regent. He, Councillors, Members of the National
Assembly, Abbots of the great monasteries—all had to
sit on cushions on the ground, while the Resident and his
Chinese staff sat on chairs. In his reception and dismissal
of them he preserved an equally high tone of superiority.
He did not rise from his chair to receive them, as any
British Resident would rise to welcome Indian gentlemen
or high officials ; he merely acknowledged their salutation
on entrance with a barely noticeable inclination of his
head. And, in dismissing them, he simply said over his
shoulder to his interpreter, Tell them to go." Our
countrymen are often accused, and sometimes with justice,
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