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Southern Tibet : vol.4 |
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by everybody. Some pilgrims call it simply the *Nyandi* valley from the monastery
a little higher up.
Living rock is difficult to reach, as mighty screes of gravel are situated along
the base of the mountains nearly everywhere. On the left or eastern side of the
brook, where the pilgrims' road from *Tarchen* goes, there is a small cubic house
and several *manis*, and a little higher up some *chortens*. The ground is again
gravelly, and blocks are numerous. Pan. 316, Tab. 57, is a view of the *Kailas*
from a point a short distance above the mouth of the valley. It shows the very
steep, sometimes nearly perpendicular, mountains of green and brownish sandstone
and conglomerate. The landscape becomes more and more wild and picturesque
the higher up we ascend. Stratification and erosion have worked out extraordinary
formations resembling walls, fortresses and towers.
On the right or western side of the valley, there are again gigantic blocks,
and series of *manis* and *chortens* again make their appearance on the left side. The
green sandstone conglomerate falls 10° south.
Just below *Nyandi-gompa* and its hill, a bridge is built across the river and
a party of pilgrims is just passing it from the left to the right bank of the river.
The slope up to the *gompa* is very steep amongst gravel and blocks.
As I have not dealt with the monasteries in this work, I will say a few words
of *Nyandi-gompa*. It is situated on a platform on the top of a scree at the base
of the right or western conglomerate mountain side. The latter rises like a perpen-
dicular wall above the *gompa* and is a very dangerous neighbourhood. Five years
earlier, or 1902, a block measuring several cubic meters in size came down after a
period of heavy rain and crushed the part of the tempel called *tsam*, and was
still laying in its centre. Nobody was killed, but a part of the monastery had to
be rebuilt.
The name was *Nyandi* or *Nyändi-gompa*, and sometimes it was called *Nyanpo-
ritsong*. At a considerable height above the monastery at the side of the mountain
wall, was a *tsamkang* or eremite-dwelling, uninhabited in 1907. On the top of the
mountain was a pole with streamers called *Nyandi-kong*. The *gompa* is subject to
*Tarchen-labrang* at the southern foot of the *Kailas*, which is said to be under the
oversight of *Tongsa Penlop* of *Buthan*. The same is said to be the case with the
*Tsumtul-pu-gompa* and *Chergip-gompa*. Twenty lamas were said to belong to
*Nyandi*, though only two of them were now there, the rest being spread in the
region around for religious and other businesses. The two at home had never seen
a European. Three years earlier four Europeans had passed the *Sacred Lake*, but
had not visited the *gompa*, and two years earlier, one European had been to *Tar-
chen-gompa*, but had not wandered around the *Kailas*. The first-mentioned must
of course have been Ryder's expedition, the latter Sherring.
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