. The awakening of China . PEKIXG ; OLD EXAMIXATIi >\ HALL, STALLS 1-(1R STUDEXTS, AXD WATCH-TCiWER. OLD UXIVERSITY. FEKIXG OUTLYING TERRITORIES 63 incarnation of Buddha. The signs of Buddhaship areknown only to the initiated; but they are supposedto consist in the recognition of places, persons, andapparel. These lamas never die of old age. While in other parts of the Empire polygamy pre-vails for those who can afford it, in Tibet polyandrycrops up. Which is the more offensive to good moralswe need not decide; but is it not evident thatConfucianism shows its weakness on one side asBuddhism
. The awakening of China . PEKIXG ; OLD EXAMIXATIi >\ HALL, STALLS 1-(1R STUDEXTS, AXD WATCH-TCiWER. OLD UXIVERSITY. FEKIXG OUTLYING TERRITORIES 63 incarnation of Buddha. The signs of Buddhaship areknown only to the initiated; but they are supposedto consist in the recognition of places, persons, andapparel. These lamas never die of old age. While in other parts of the Empire polygamy pre-vails for those who can afford it, in Tibet polyandrycrops up. Which is the more offensive to good moralswe need not decide; but is it not evident thatConfucianism shows its weakness on one side asBuddhism does on the other? A people that tol-erates either or both hafdly deserves to be re-garded as civilised. The Chinese call Tibet the roof of the world, andmost of it is as barren as the roof of a house. Still theroof, though producing nothing, collects water to irri-gate a garden. Tibet is the mother of great rivers, andshe feeds them from her eternal snows. On her high-lands is a lake or cluster of lakes which the Chinesedescribe as Sing Su Hat, the sea of stars. From thisthe Yellow River takes it
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