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0214 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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worshipped in several elaborately furnished sanctu-
aries, one of which had not been opened for years,
it was said, when an obsequious attendant showed
us its unprovided altars.
On a high balcony or rampart, outside the palace,
queer little flags were flying, efficient to protect the
royal residence from devils, we were told. But that
may be symbolic. To European minds it would
seem much more important to know how to get
water into the palace than how to defy devils out of
it. Our own forefathers of the Middle Ages like-
wise put their monasteries (can a monastery supply
forefathers?) and their castles in just such impossible
places as these Tibetan buildings occupy. It is
humiliating to think that our monks were probably
equally dirty with the Lamas, and more obviously so
since the dust of which we are all made has, in these
people, been left in its native hue—and brown upon
brown is still only brown.