The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot Through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia, Volume 1J. Murray, 1893 |
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Ahmed Aksakal Aksu altitude Amban Amir Amir's amongst aneroid animals arrived baggage bazaar beautiful Buddha Buddhist called camp caravan Chinese Ching Dolai coolies cross desert dismounted Dras feet fire four Galitzin glacier going grass head hills Hindu horses Incarnation India Indus Karakash river Karakoram pass Kardong Kargalik Kashgar Kashgaria Kashmir Khan Khotan Kirghiz Ladak Lama Lhasa look Mahammadan miles monastery morning mountains natives night Nirvana nullah officer Pamirs passport Peshawar plain ponies pony-man precipitous Ramzan reached riding rifles river Roche rocks rode round rupees Russian Central Asia Sanju sent Shahidula sheep shikaris Shyok SHYOK RIVER side Sindh Singh snow sort spot Srinagar Sugeyt summit Tashkurgan tents Thanadar Tibet Tibetan to-day took trees troops Tungani Turkestan Turki Urdu valley village walk Western Tibet whole wild yaks Yarkand Yarkand river
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Page 37 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 357 - Daughter, I had such an opinion of your modesty and virtue, that I could never have believed, had I not seen it with my own eyes, that you would have violated either, even so much as in thought.
Page 38 - Syria; to which, perhaps, we may safely add some of the southern kingdoms, and even islands of America ; while the Gothic system which prevailed in the northern regions of Europe was not merely similar to those of Greece and Italy, but almost the same in another dress, with an embroidery of images apparently Asiatic. From all this, if it be satisfactorily proved, we may infer a general union or affinity between the most distinguished inhabitants of the primitive world at the time when they deviated,...
Page 120 - dkon-mcog' suggests the idea of some supernatural power, the existence of which he feels in his heart, and the nature and properties of which he attributes more or less to the three agents mentioned above, we are fully entitled to assign to the word dkon-mcog also the signification of God, though the sublime conception which the Bible connects with this word, viz.
Page 40 - Nymphae, or Lotos, which was anciently revered in Egypt, as it is at present in Hindustan, Tibet, and Nepal.
Page 86 - Hindoo triad, inasmuch as it consists of the three sounds, a (Vishnu), u (Shiva), and m (Brahma). This interjection frequently occurs in the prayers of the Northern Buddhists of Tibet, and especially in the famous...
Page 120 - ... and worship something supernatural, together with the hierarchical tendency of the teaching class, have afterwards contributed to convert the acknowledgment of human activity for the benefit of others (for such it was undoubtedly on the part of the founder himself and his earlier followers) into a devout, and by degrees idolatrous adoration of these three agents, especially as Buddha's religious doctrine did not at all satisfy the deeper wants of the human mind, and as its author himself did...
Page 120 - Buddha's religious doctrine did not at all satisfy the deeper wants of the human mind, and aa its author himself did not know anything of a God standing apart and above this world. For whatever in Buddhism is found of beings to whom divine attributes are assigned, has either been transferred from the Indian and other mythologies, and had accordingly been current among the people before the introduction of Buddhism, or is a product of philosophical speculation, that has remained more or less foreign...
Page 252 - After riding for two miles up this river we changed our course again to north-east, and climbing a steep cherai found ourselves in a high narrow defile which we conjectured (and rightly) must be the entrance to the Choo Choo pass. We took the altitude at the Yangaghlak river, making it 8980, and when we reached the top of the Choo Choo pass in the afternoon at 4.30 PM we had risen 3525 feet, the altitude at the summit of the pass being 12,500 feet.
Page 119 - Buddhism has always sought the highest good not in anything material, but in the moral sphere, looking with indifference, and indeed with contempt, on everything merely relating to matter. It is not, however, moral perfection or the happiness attained thereby, which is understood by the 'most precious thing', but the mediator or mediators who procure that happiness for mankind, viz.