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Show TIBETAN NEW YEArVS DAY. I Characterise Ceremrnlea That Mark I Its Celebration. February IS la Now Ycnr'a day In niiet, and f.ir 'hn aurreeding threa areeka l.anna In t tin iccno of atranga j proccedltigi. It:i government pasrea I from tl.o lama to a mn-, k of tha Da-bang Da-bang mnnutery, who buva the rlcht t)i rule by auction. Ha la called tha talno and, recclvlrg tl :e homage of all, ' ixerclsra hla authority by Impoilng heavy flnea for hla own profit. Ilia men vlilt every home In ljinta to col- lect heavy taiea and flnea, ao that all the poorer people leava the city at tha New Year. From tha country round ' prleata flock In for numeroua religions eeremonloa, which culminate In the election of a human aeapegoat for the alna of Lasna. The face of the victim la painted half black and half white and after ha baa been beaten by the populace aa a aymbol of tha transference to him of tha alna of tha people ha la hooted and mobbed out of lama, whither ba may not return for a year. |