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0383 India and Tibet : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / Page 383 (Color Image)

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[Photo] To face page 310 THE SERA MONASTERY

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doi: 10.20676/00000295
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hursue after his arrival here G
Waddell interested himself in the
research.
As a consequence, w
nasteries, after the signature of th
of the visit from a British officer
ernment as it is in India.
nastery is a little town in itself,
dilly-built masonry—houses and t
s are narrow and not over-clean b
s are spacious. They are roomy f
with pagoda-shaped roofs, pave
l grotesque demonesque-like figur
nastery there were from 4,000 to 5
s, I think, four sections, each wit
ome temple hall and meeting-roo
ward appearance the monks of ou
nasteries are not prepossessing f
besotted. Some are bright and in
look really intellectual or spiritu
pression I took away was of a b
Of the higher Lamas, too, up to
umble as regards their religious at
ainments. The Regent (I have
ned on the negotiation, had per
olent, kindly old gentleman, tho
dy if he could have avoided it. A
lems, but no one could act for t
apacity we would meet with a m
character and bearing one met
man of a country. And his spiri
thered from a long conversatio
Treaty was signed, consists m
y rote of vast quantities of lit
of these Tibetan monks is larg
by rote is, indeed, something
the actual meaning they recite

the Abbots we met were clear-m
ecture to ourselves the jelly-fis
ed; but as spiritual leaders of