Buddhism In Tibet With An Account Of The Buddhist Systems Preceding It In India With Atlas Of 20 Plates

Author : Emil Schlagintweit
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230137872
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism in Tíbet. with an Account of the Buddhist Systems Preceding It in India. with Atlas of 20 Plates written by Emil Schlagintweit and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...The inner vest has no sleeves, and reaches to the haunches. It is not at all cut to the form of the body of the individual but hangs down quite straight. In Ladak, most of the Lamas wear it over the gown instead of underneath. The trousers are fastened to the waist by a sort of lace running in a drawing hem. The two legs are equidistant throughout, also in their inner side, as in Fig. a, and not in b. During the winter the trousers are worn over the larger gown as a better protection against the cold. In Bhutan the Lamas, according to Turner,1 wear, instead of trousers, philibegs hanging down nearly as far as the knee. The cloak, in Tibetan Lagoi, "the upper garment," is the distinctive ecclesiastical dress of the monks, in which also the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and sacred Lamas are represented. It is a long but narrow shawl of wool or sometimes even of silk, ten to twenty feet long, and two 1 "Embassy," p. 86.--The wearing of trousers is a very ancient custom; see the most interesting and complete work of Weiss, "Kostumkunde," Vol. II., pp. 545-674, who gives many drawings in which the races who in ancient times inhabited Northern and Eastern Asia, are represented with trousers. It is altogether remarkable to see their dress but little differing from what they wear now. Dress: Cloak And Boots. 173 to three feet broad; it is thrown over the left shoulder and passed under the right arm, so as to leave bare the right arm. Perhaps the custom of having the right arm uncovered may be explained from the rejection of the castes by Sakyamuni; for the border of the shawl describes a line across the breast just as the triple cord does, which according to the laws of Menu, the three higher castes alone are allowed to wear;...