Show GLORIOUS IMAGE OF BUDDHA idol in the lama city Is by devotees with almost insane devotion an 80 foot wooden image of buddha standing on a golden lotus flower alth tn a sacred temple in the iama I ama city reserved or residences 0 mon bollan priests Is worshiped with all the insane devotion possible by the mongolians Mongo lians the great figure Is beav lly glided In crusted with precious stones and draped with silken claths cloths when the temple Is opened to the 0 the city of a priest at the entrance gives each person a few drops ot holy water from a filthy jug and the people silent with awe bathe their faces with the fluid and prostrate themselves before the statue whose head Is lost in the shadows 0 una temple roof they kiss its silken draperies soiled by the lips of thousands and each one gathers a handful of sacred dirt from the temple floor from niches n the wall hundreds of tiny buddha gaze impassively on the worshiping mongols the scene ot worship Is described by koy chapman andrews in harpers magazine as one intoxicating in its barbaric splendor the chorus of prayers which rise and fall in a meaningless halt wild chant are broken by the clash of cymbals and the boom of snakeskin drums and one Is fully able to understand the religious fanaticism of the east when the people are seen at prayer in one ot these temples |