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Southern Tibet : vol.7 |
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We now come to the passage in Monserrate's MS. which is the most interesting
to us in this connection, viz. where he speaks of Lake Manasarovar.¹ He does it
in connection with the information regarding Christian communities existing in Tibet.
Though we have nothing to do with the religious side of the question, I quote the
paragraph in extenso:
At uero, in interiori Imao, quo Agarenorum arma, non penetrarunt, si Joguis, fides
est tribuenda, qui multas regiones obeunt, sed multa commentitia, et a se conficta narrant,
uerisque fabulas, intermiscent: reliquiae christianorum extant. Nam a Sacerdotibus, nonnulli,
de Imai montis situ, interrogati dixerunt: montem esse arduum, et ascensu difficilem, in
fastigio uero planum, et ad habitandum accomodatum, atque in ora cuiusdam stagni² quod
ab incolis, Mansarüor dicitur: gentem quandam, peruetus oppidum incolere: qui
octauo quoque die, in communem aedem sacrificij, et orationis caussa, conueniant. Hanc
uero, esse sacrificij, et orationis religionem. Viros in dextera templi parte, a vestibulo ad
phanum usque, et mulieres, in sinistra, more regionis, complicatis cruribus accumbere. In
editiore loco, et medio, capiteque templi, hominem lintea ueste indutum, eodem more sedere;
a fronte cuius humilis mensa collocatur, in quam, duo uasa aurea inferuntur, in altero quorum,
uinum, in altero, panis asseruantur illum uero, di scripto, quaedam recitare, quibus caeteri
respondent, tum pro concione, uerba facere, ad extremum, singulos, mares primum, deinde
faeminas, sine strepitu, ordine surgere: ad Antistitem adire, ab eo modici panis frustum,
deinde uini haustum, accipere, et iterum sedere, his peractis, domum suam quemque redire.
Fuerant sane Sacerdotes, rem totam, diligenter exploraturi; nisi eorum consilijs, legationis
exitus obstitisset.
The beginning of this passage would therefore run as follows: »On the other
hand, if we may believe the Jogis³, who use to wander about in many regions,
but who tell many fictions and inventions of their own and mix idle talk and truth
together, remnants of Christians indeed exist in the interior of Imaus (Himalaya),
where the arms of the Agarenians⁴ did not penetrate. For some people who had
been asked by the priests (or Jesuit Fathers) regarding the situation of the Imaus
(Himalaya) Mountains, answered: the mountain was high and steep and difficult to
ascend, but still forming a plain in its higher regions and suited for habitation, and
that on the shore of a certain pool, which is called Mansarüor by the natives, a
certain people was dwelling in a certain very old city.»
Then he describes the rites as having a great resemblance with those of the
Christians, and which, in later years, astonished so many Catholic missionaries in
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