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Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Abors and Galongs: Personal Narrative of a Visit to Pemakoichen

1916

The map published by the Survey of India with Kinthup's Narrative shows the Lkarpo on both banks of the river in what is the country of the Simong and Bomo-Janbo (Angong) Abors ;"94 GEORGE D-8-DUNB kR ON the Lo-nakpo in Galong and Minyong Abor country ; and the Lo-tawa in the area occupied by the Padam Abors between the Dihang and the Dibang. [...] By keeping the trade monopoly in their own hands and by working on the superstitions of the people to encourage endowments to the monasteries by far the greater part of what wealth the country possesses is in the hands of the lamas. [...] The Abors bury their dead ; the Membas either bury or burn the body with the exception of the bones of the skull that are kept as relics and made into rosary discs and possibly the thigh bones are sometimes turned to the uses of the temple in the form of trumpets. [...] Apart from the keynote struck by the central figure and maintained by the infinitely more beautful decoration of the wood-work and the richness of the banners the great diffeence between the two lay in the Abbot's chair on the left of the altar and the opposite wall with its pigeon holes from floor to ceiling filled with books under metal presses. [...] On the Abbot's table by the altar and to the right of the entrance were the bell and thunderbolt of the dead Lama.
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Pages
27
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100203
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii George Dunbar view
Abors and Galongs: Part III. Personal Narratice of a Visit to Pemakoichen
93-113 George D-S-Dunbar view
Backmatter
i-iii George Dunbar view

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