[30] Toma is droma (or doma), the root of the potentilla anserina, and called chuoma in Eastern and North-eastern Tibet. It is mealy, and tastes like a bean rather than a potato. It is about 1½ inches long.—(W. R.) [↑]
[31] All these omens of good and bad luck are of equal importance at any time of the year.—(W. R.) [↑]
[32] I have seen these mummers in North-eastern Tibet. See ‘Land of the Lamas,’ p. 246.—(W. R.) [↑]
[33] On the second day of the new year, all the inhabitants gather together to witness a feat performed by two men, each of whom in turn mounts on a wooden saddle and slides down a strong rope fastened from the fort walls to a post buried about nine feet in the ground. ‘Report on the Explorations of A. K.,’ p. 33. Cf. Jour. Roy. Asiat. Soc., n.s., xxiii. p. 209, and ‘Report on lama U. G.’s Exploration,’ p. 32, where we learn that on the second day of the New Year the Nachung chos-gyong prophesies the events of the year beginning. See also Huc, ‘Souvenirs d’un voyage,’ ii. 375 et sqq. [↑]
[34] The monlam chenpo was instituted by Tsongkhapa in 1407. Csoma, ‘Tib. gram.,’ 187. [↑]
[35] Cf. lama Ugyen-gyatso’s account of the Shalnyo’s rule in ‘Report on explor. from 1856 to 1888,’ p. 32. Also A. K., op. cit., p. 33; and Huc, op. cit., ii. 380. He calls this rule of the Shalnyo, the “Lha-ssa Morou,” but he says it only lasts six days; but all other authorities agree in saying that the rule of the city is turned over to the Dabung lama for a month.—(W. R.) [↑]
INDEX.
Absolution to deceased official, [106].
Acharya Ami, his Svarasvat Vyakarana, [112].