Show GLORIOUS IMAGE OF BUDDHA idol ln in the lama city Is worshiped by devotees Dev otei with almost insane devotion an 60 foot wooden image ot of buddha standing on a golden lotus flower wi within th a sacred temple in the rho ln enma mal city reserved for residences of mon gollan priests pr lesta Is worshiped with all the insane devotion possible by the mongolians Mongo lians the great figure la Is heny lly glided gilded In crusted with precious tones stones and draped with silken when the temple Is opened to tho the faithful of the city of it a priest at the entrance gives each person a few drops of holy water from a filthy jug and the people silent client with awe bathe their faces with the fluid and prostrate themselves before tn the statue J whose head bead Is lost in the shadows ot of the temple roof they kiss hiss its silken draperies soiled boiled by the lips of thousands and each one gathers a hind handful of sacred dirt from the temple floor from niches in the wall hundreds of tiny budihas gaze on Q abe worshiping mongols Mon gols the scene of worship Is described by roy hoy chapman andrews in Ilar harpers pers magazine as one intoxicating in its barbaric splendor the chorus of prayers which rise and fall in a meaningless halt wild cliant chant lire are broken by the clash of cymbals end the boom of snakeskin drums find and one Is fully able to understand uie the religious fanaticism of tile the past east when tho the people are seen at prayer tu in one on of these temples |