Bainqen Lama

Sometimes the wishful thinking was done by well-known individuals—the Dalai Lama and Ralph Bunche.

His influence is hardly so great as it used to be, still he is the great Brahmin and the grand Lama of the locality.

Outside was a rude altar made of stones from the river-bed, where a Lama was burning incense and chanting prayers.

Then he continued his questions, asking much about the Lama, and the customs and religion of his people.

They only knew that the lama who had been walled in for sixty-nine years had wished to see the sun again before he died.

The Linga monks said that an ordinary lama, when he dies, is cut in pieces and abandoned to the birds.