The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and TibetLongmans, Green, 1891 - 399 páginas |
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Alang altitude Amban Amdo Amyé Bat'ang brick Buddha Buddhist butter called camels Ch'ing Chan-tui Chango chief China Chinese Chou Chuwo clans crossed Dawo Déba Dérgé Dowé dra dra Dré ch'u Dsassak east eastern Tibet Fan-min feet gold Golok gomba gorge gowns hills Ho-nan Horba horses houses Hsi-ning Hsien hundred I-ch'ang inhabited journey Jyékundo K'amba k'ang Kan-su Kanzé Koko-nor Kumbum lake lamasery Lan-chou Lh'asa Li-t'ang live loess Lusar miles Mohammedans Mongolia Mongols mountains Nam-ts'o native officials Panak'a pass Peking picul polyandry population prayer Prjevalsky reached road says shan Shan-hsi Shang shih side silver snow Ssu-ch'uan stream Sung-p'an T'ang t'ing T'ung Ta-chien-lu taels Talé lama Tankar temple tents Tibetan told town trade tribes Ts'aidam tsamba Tsarong valley village Wa-shu walls western women Ya-chou Yellow River
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Página 256 - Author] there was a forest fire on the flank of Mount Ka-Lo, east of Kanze, and the flames drove a number of wild men out of the woods. These were seen by him; they were very hairy; their language was incomprehensible to Tibetans; and they wore most primitive garments made of skins.
Página 21 - ... duly allotted to each rank of the official hierarchy, and these buildings were filled with marvelous inventions and rare treasures of every kind. Artificers were set to work to construct arbalists ready strung, with arrows so set that they would be shot off and would transfix any one who should penetrate within their reach. Rivers, lakes, and seas were imitated by means of quicksilver, caused to flow by mechanism in constant circulation. Above the configuration of the heavens, and below the outline...
Página 288 - ... would have been his. As for those native explorers, a small pecuniary reward and obscurity are all to which they can look forward...
Página 211 - The tillable lands are of small extent and are all under cultivation, so it is extremely difficult for any one to add to his fields, which as a general rule produce only enough to support one small family. If at the death of the head of the family the property was divided among the sons, there would not be enough to supply the wants of all of them if each had a wife and family. Moreover, the paternal abode would not accommodate them. The secular experience of the whole human race showing that several...
Página 20 - Mr. Rockhill says (Land of the Lamas, pp. 19-20): "The road between T'ung-kwan and Si-ngan fu, a distance of 1 10 miles, is a fine highway — for China — with a ditch on either side, rows of willowtrees here and there, and substantial stone bridges and culverts over the little streams which cross it. The basin of the Wei ho, in which this part of the province lies, has been for thousands of years one of the granaries of China. It was the colour of its loess-covered soil, called 'yellow earth'...
Página 79 - ... he lets it melt in his bowl, drinking some of the tea and blowing the melted butter to one side ; and then adds a handful of tsamba from the small ornamented bag in which it is kept.
Página 214 - ... a luxury in the latter as beef and mutton in the former, and many other antitheses might be cited, the most remarkable of which is that polygamy obtains in valleys, while polyandry prevails in the uplands. In the valley- farms, I am told, the work is light and suitable for women ; but the rough life and hard fare of a shepherd on pastures 13,000 feet or more above sea-level is too severe for the sex.
Página 211 - ... away from home. Turner observes that " different pursuits, either agricultural employments, or mercantile speculations, may occasionally cause the temporary absence of each " ; 5 and according to Rockhill, who much emphasises the prevalence of polyandry among the agricultural population of Tibet, it is not too much to say that more than half of the time of nearly every man in the country is spent away from his home, 1 Crooke, Tribes and Castes, ii.
Página 339 - little queen,' the two together ruling the kingdom. As to their customs, the women hold in light esteem their husbands, nor are they jealous. Both men and women paint their faces with different coloured clays. They wear raw-hide boots. The climate is very cold and they live by the chase. Their domestic animals comprise sheep and horses. The country produces copper, cinnabar, musk, yak, and salt in great abundance, which they carry to India and make great profit by the trade. The sons take...
Página 65 - ... who came within their reach. Behind them walked a stately lama in robes of finest cloth, with head clean-shaved. He was a Gekor, a lama censor or provost, whose duty it is to see that the rules of the lamasery are strictly obeyed, and who, in conjunction with two colleagues, appointed like him by the abbot for a term of three years, tries all lamas for whatever breach of the rules or crime they may have committed. This one had heard of the peep-shows, Punch and Judy shows, gambling tables and...