Three years in Tibet : with the original Japanese illustrations / by the Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi.
- Ekai Kawaguchi
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Three years in Tibet : with the original Japanese illustrations / by the Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![31. witli tlie flowers of the rhododendron, the chief charac- teristic of the Himalayan Range. 'Jdience I saw again the snow-covered range of Hiinrdaya, ever grand and majestic. Just a little way down from the top of the peak, 1 saw, s])read hid'ore me like a jiictnre, Katmandu the ca])ital of Kepfd and the country around. 1 saw also in that panorama two gilded towers rising conspicuously against the sky, and Lama Ruddha Vajra told me that one of them was the tond) of Kasya])a Rnddha, and the other that of SikhI Buddha. On coming down the steep slope of the hill, we were met hy four or five men with two horses. 'J’hey were men sent thither in advance to wait for the return of Buddha Ahijra, and J was given one of the horses, while my host took the other. We were mot hy about thirty more men on entering a village, not far from the foot of the hill. 'I'ho distance from Sagauli railway station to this spot is roughly one hundred ami twenty-live miles.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29351650_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
