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Title: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and Manchuria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943
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Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Chosen when a baby as the repository of there-born saint, the child is brought up under the charge ofthe lamas. He is regarded as sinless, but pays dearlyfor such a reputation. He has a poor time, and hissecluded life checks his development, and leaves him theinferior and tool of the lamas. It was with this re-incarnated saint that my friend,M. Labbe, had an interview. The day was far advancedwhen the traveller arrived, and quarters were found for himin the village. The next morning, after due ceremony,he was ushered into the presence of the khtcbligan, orsinless one, Taranatha by name, a youth of pleasantcountenance, and splendidly arrayed in silks. The inter-view that followed was eminently characteristic, both ofthe Buddhistic saint and the Frenchman. The one wasall dignity and condescension, the other all suavity andpoliteness. The gegen expressed the hope that his dis-tinguished visitor from a far-off land had found his accom-modation in the village to his taste. M. Labbe replied
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TARANATHA, A BURIAT KII IBILGAN, OK LIVING BUDDHA. (To/acs/xi^ 450. TRANS-BAIKALIA TO MOSCOW 451 with ceremonious thanks, but could not refrain from men-tioning that he had suffered from the attention of fleas. However, he added, I killed about thirty of them. Iregret it, said the gegen, gravely. It was a sin to havedone so. How do you know, but that in your nextexistence, you yourself may become a flea ? Then,replied M. Labbe, with true French politeness, I shouldnever attack your reverence ! Lamaism has seen many incorporations of pagan deitiesand customs. Shamanistic tribes, other than the Buriats,were early received into the bosom of the Church, and, tomake their entrance easier, their gods and rites adoptedunder new names or with slight modifications. One such notable custom is the Mystery Play. InTibet it is called the Dance of the Red Tiger Devil, andis said by Mr. Waddell * to have originated in the Shaman-istic exorcisms of evil spirits, such as I have alreadydepicted among t

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