. China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary. how the Sovereign Lama ofTibet, the head of the rehgion of Fo, andwho himself passes for an immortal god,could render this homage to a Chineseprince, and more particularly submit toprostrate himself, as the same authormentions elsewhere. It is true that, atthis period, it appears that the GrandLama did not unite temporal with spiri-tual power. There had been a king,named Tampsa, at Tibet, who had beendethroned and k
. China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary. how the Sovereign Lama ofTibet, the head of the rehgion of Fo, andwho himself passes for an immortal god,could render this homage to a Chineseprince, and more particularly submit toprostrate himself, as the same authormentions elsewhere. It is true that, atthis period, it appears that the GrandLama did not unite temporal with spiri-tual power. There had been a king,named Tampsa, at Tibet, who had beendethroned and killed in a war asrainst theLama, and several rajahs and princeswere still, at this time, not reduced tosubmission. At any rate, it must be admitted thatthere is great obscurity in the theocraticgovernment of Tibet, and particularlyin the diiference between the powers andattributes of the Dalai-Lama, who residesat Lassa, and the Teshoo-Lama, who is at 132 CHINA, ITS COSTUME, Teshoo Loombo. The missionaries havehad very little opportunity of learn-ing any thing respecting Tibet; andGeneral Turners otherwise so interestinscaccount, is far from having cleared upthis chaos. n U. ^ Q ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 133 A BUFFOON, DRESSED LIKE A WOMAN,APPARENTLY ROWING A BOAT ONLAND. We have already spoken of those paste-board horses, which convey the illusion ofreal life ; the Chinese hav^e another, andfar more extravagant burlesque, whichconsists in imitating the motion of a smallboat on land. A man, who is generally dressed as afemale, to render the mummery still moregrotesque, sits upright in the middle ofa pasteboard boat with a top to it. Thetop has an opening exactly sufficient forthe reception of the legs and thighs ; and,at the bottom, is an opening sufficient forthe free action of the feet, that the manmay go to which side he chooses. So farthere would be so little deception, that it VOL. HI. K 134 CHINA, ITS COSTUME, would be seen through in a moment; butthe buffoon having false le
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