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0281 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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pious bees who sip every flower that blooms in
Tibet. In a land so sterile and so cold, architecture
is saved from rioting into an over-florid style and is
even stunted in its outreachings toward grace, but
it attains unto dignity. As in every similar case of
a single inspiration operating within almost unvary-
ing environment, there results great uniformity,
such, indeed, that the monasteries of Ladak and
those around Sining in the Far East might change
places over night without discovery. It is highly
suggestive as to the future possible development of
the Tibetan people that, given a powerful impulse
in a given direction, they have shown engineering
capacity of so high an order as that involved in the
erection of these great structures. That they have
often chosen the most inaccessible among many
difficult sites may be due chiefly to the same mili-
tary consideration which determined the uncomfort-
able and picturesque locations of so many European
piles built in the brave days of old. It is pleasing
to think, also, that the artistic fitness of the thing
—isolation of dwelling, and withdrawal from the
world's illusions—may have partly ruled the build-
ers' minds.
Shall we also charitably assume that the theoreti-
cal unworldliness of the ruling class may account for
the neglect of ways of communication? One who
has been tried by these roads is quick to wrath, yet
I have seen as bad in Abyssinia as in Ladak. And
every traveller in China bewails the strange lack of
public spirit which bequeaths to each generation the
ruts and bumps of its predecessor. Even America,
inspired with mechanical cult, sins greatly in this