A Vagabond in Asia

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A Vagabond in Asia
Edmund Candler
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The voice of the populace is their only stan- dard of criticism, and its verdict is not likely ♦Since writing the above the Rev. Graham Sanberg has contributed an interesting paper on Milarapa to The Nineiienih Century ^ October, 1899.
191 Digitized by VjOOQ IC A Vagabond in Asia to be changed in a paltry seven hundred years.
Milarapas Life and Poems are especi- ally interesting, as they belong to the few indigenous books of the country.
The great Tibetan scriptures, the Kah- gyur of a hundred
...and eight volumes, and the Tangyur, a massive commentary, are both translations from the Sanskrit and Indian. Other sacred writings, for the most part manuscripts, are preserved in the monasteries, but very few secular books are printed. In Tibet there is no freedom of the press : the Lamas ex- ercise a strict supervision over the literature of the country, and every manuscript must be submitted to an official at Lhassa before its publication is sanctioned.
The Milarapa xylograph, which con- sisted of three volumes, the 100,000 songs of the Saint, his life, and the life of his teacher, Marpa Lotsa, was edited by Rachungpa, who in a vision visited 192 Digitized by VjOOQ IC Himalayan Sketches Urgyen the land of the blessed, and heard Buddha discoursing upon the lives of the holy Saints Tilo, Naro and Marpa.


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