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0447 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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BREAKING LAMAS' POWERS   373

villagers themselves, and were to be removable by the

villagers if they acted unjustly. Under each-district official

4i (presumably a Chinaman) were to be three Chinese and

it three Tibetans, to be jointly responsible for the collection

of the land tax and the hearing of suits, and all six of

them were to know both the Chinese and 'Tibetan

languages. The land tax (payable in cash), according to

to the fertility of the land, was to be 40, 30, or 20 per cent.

of the total yield, which is considerably higher than the

kk land tax in British India. Officials in future were to pay

im for their transport—a very wise and necessary provision.

it Highway robbery was to be punishable with death, whether

pi anyone was killed or not. The gross ignorance of the

dl tribesmen having led to the murder of Feng and the

French priests, a Government school would be established

9k which all boys from the ages of five or six would have to

attend. The barbarous methods of burial practised by the

tribesmen were to be abolished. Habits of cleanliness were

ks inculcated. Adult men and women were urged to wear

trousers in the interests of morality, and children were to

ik be compelled to wear them. Each family was to take a

surname. Slavery was to be abolished. The people were

warned against smoking opium. The streets were to be

properly scavenged, urinals erected, and cemeteries were

to be made in low-lying places, and not on high ground.

â►   Thus in every detail did Chao determine to make

Batang a component part of China. But the most signifi-

cant portion of the regulation is that relating to the Lamas.

The Ting Ling Monastery had been razed to the ground.

Orthodox temples would be constructed by officials, but

no other places of worship would be allowed, and no Lamas

would be permitted to reside even in these. Those Lamas

who took no part in the late disturbances might continue

to reside in the country villages, and such of them as

wished would be permitted to quit their habit. What

those Lamas who did take part in the disturbances might

do is not mentioned. The number of Lamas in each

temple was not to exceed 300, and a register was to be

kept of the names and ages of the Lamas of each temple.

Temple lands were to pay land taxes like other land,