The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . A MONGOL LAMAS TOMB. their houses the people have neat little shrines of carvedblack wood, which, when opened, disclose a little brassimage of Buddha, just such as one might buy at Khat-mandu or Leh. Even the brass lamps which burnedbefore them had exactly the same shape and ornamen-tation. From the Mongols we got the first fresh milk KIRIN TO TSITSIHAR 301 we had tasted since we left Xewehwang, and deliciousit seemed. It is an odd thing that the Chinese
The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . A MONGOL LAMAS TOMB. their houses the people have neat little shrines of carvedblack wood, which, when opened, disclose a little brassimage of Buddha, just such as one might buy at Khat-mandu or Leh. Even the brass lamps which burnedbefore them had exactly the same shape and ornamen-tation. From the Mongols we got the first fresh milk KIRIN TO TSITSIHAR 301 we had tasted since we left Xewehwang, and deliciousit seemed. It is an odd thing that the Chinese, whowill eat Unsavoury food such as dogs and cats androtten eggs, and who are also the most economicalhusbandmen in the world, letting nothing go to waste,will not, as a general rule at least, touch good cowsmilk, considering it an unclean product. The Mon-gols also gave us curds and cheese of their owncalled nai-pi, or milk-skin, which is very good. It is. ORNAMENTAL TILE FROM A MONGOL LAMAS TOMB. made bv simmering a bowlful of cream for hourstogether till the residuum is left in the shape of a cakeabout half an inch thick. When fresh and soft it isvery like Devonshire cream, and, when dried, it willkeep for any length of time. At one place we founda great treasure, a potful of line clarified butter. InIndia the sahib turns up his nose at ghi, but he isglad enough to get it in Mongolia. We met someLamas riding about, dressed in red coats, and theircaps with three-cornered lappets, again just the same as 302 THE LONG WHITE MOUNTAIN in Ladakh—nay, in one house there was a female Lamawith shaven head, coarse yellow robe, and hempengirdle, telling her beads with all the fervour of aCatholic penitent. The Lama form of Buddhism differs from that inChina in being much purer—that is to say, it has no ad-mixture of Confucian philosophy or Taoist Lamas believe in heaven and hell as well as in theefficacy of prayer and thank
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