dozens and even hundreds, each composed of a wide and
deep bowl of heaped-up butter, in which, floating in a
little pool which its own warmth has made, burns a
The kyil-kor of the temple on the jong.
single wick with a small yellow flame. These are the
last things tha;t the priests will take away. If they
fear looting, they will hide every other ornament, replacing
them by strange, many-coloured erections of
The inner gateway of Gyantse jong.
