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0098 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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to be a curiosity shop. Brilliant masks, gaudy banners, and
colored streamers bearing printed prayers hung from the
walls and ceiling; a row of shelves contained the holy
Buddhist books, oblong packages of long, narrow leaves
wrapped in cloth or leather; small, shining brass bowls
full of water stood on boxes on the floor; and among them
a huge salver of oil, said to be replenished once a year,
bore on its surface an ever-burning wick. The room was
regarded with distinctly more veneration than any of the
holy places which I later saw in other, larger lamaseries,
and the little lama's reverent attitude made us honor it.
When I asked the use of a thin, drum-like object hung
vertically from the ceiling, the lama smiled like a pleased
child. Seating himself before it, he took a sickle-shaped
drumstick in his left hand and a cymbal in his right, and
illustrated the call to prayer. The childlike simplicity of
the two inmates, especially of the old man, impressed me
greatly, as did also the cleanness of the monastery. The
other two or three lamas, one of whom we had met trudg-
ing down the valley, were away on the tours of begging by
which the institution is partly supported.

Later, I visited other lamaseries, including Himis, the
largest, but the impression was by no means so pleasant.
The walls and ceilings of the sacred rooms were crowded
with inartistic and sometimes vulgar paintings; countless
images of Buddha and of saints stood in rows with offer-
ings set before them in the shape of little round bowls of
oil supporting burning wicks, or of conventional flowers
and symbolic forms modeled in dough; and the open
spaces in the middle of the room were filled sometimes with