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0280 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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CHAPTER XIV

INDUSTRY AND ART—TIBETAN ARCHITECTS—
CARAVAN VS. RAILWAY

AMONG the notable achievements of our mount-
ain folk must be accounted their progress as
builders. Such structures as the great monasteries
and the kingly residences would be remarked in any
country, at least for their magnitude. In China
are pagodas high enough, in India are magnificent
mosques, of one clear spring from floor to dome-
top; but neither in China nor in India are to be seen
such many-storied, myriad-roomed buildings as in
Tibet. Yet from China and from India have come
the seeds of all development beyond the tent and
the hut. Special influences have caused the extra-
ordinary growth of the building art among a people
whose souls are not mechanical. Analysis of such
a result, in the absence of full historical data, is
hazardous, hence somewhat tempting.

Three conditions have seemed to me chiefly re-
sponsible for a superiority, which, in comparing all
other characteristics with those of their neighbours,
may be considered as almost an eccentricity of the
Tibetans: An abundance of stone, steep roughness
of building sites, and the communal life of the
monks,—these three conditions conspire to produce
the sky-scraping masses, in which are hived the
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