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an absence of two weeks flew down to where his servants were col- 

 lected and guided them by a road via Dsongri to Norbugang in Sikhim. 

 He arrived in Sikhim with two other Nyingmapa lamas. By " the 

 western gate " of Singlela came a Kartok-pa lama 

 lama's"*'"^ *''" "'''" n^^^^d Sempah Chhembo,' and a lama of the 

 Ngadakpa sub-sect, named Rigdsin Chhembo,^ who 

 had opened " the southern gate" by way of Darjeeling and Namchi 

 respectively. The place where these three lamas met was called by 

 the Lepchas Yok-sam, which means " the three superior ones or noble- 

 men," a literal translation of "the three lamas." 



The three lamas held here a council at which Hlatsiin Chhembo 



Their appointment ^^^^^ " Here are we three lamas in a new and 



and coronation of a irreligious Country. We must have a ' dispenser 



king of Sikhim. of gifts ' 3 ^^-^^^^ ^ ]^i^„^ ^^ j.^^^ fj^^ country on our 



behalf." Then the N<ja-dak-pa lama said, " I am descended from the 

 celebrated Terton Nga-dak Nyangr^l, who was latterly a governor ; 

 I should therefore be the king." While the Kartok-pa lama declared, 

 " As I am of royal lineage I have the right to rule." Then Hlatsiin 

 Chheniho said, " In the prophesy of Guru Eimbochhe it is written that 

 four noble brothers shall meet in Sikhim and arrange for its govern- 

 ment. We are three of these come from the north, west, and south. 

 Towai'ds the east, it is written, there is at this epoch a man named 

 PJmntshog* a descendant of brave ancestors of Kham in Eastern 

 Tibet. According, therefore, to the prophesy of the Guru we should 

 invite him." Two messengers were then despatched to search for this 

 Phiintshog. Going towards the extreme east near Gangtok they 

 met a man churning milk and asked him his name. lie without 

 replying invited them to sit down and gave them milk to drink. 

 After they were refreshed, he said his name was Phiintshog. He was 

 then conducted to the lamas, who crowned him by placing the holy 

 water vase on his head and anointed him with the water ; and exhorting 

 him to rule the country religiously, gave him Hlatsiin's own surname 

 of Namgyd' and the title of Chko-cjual ^Skt. Dharma-raja) or "religious 

 king." Phiintshog Namgyd was at this time aged 38 years, and he 

 became a lama in the same year, which is said to have been 1641 A.D. 

 In appearance Lhatsiin is usually represented as seated on a leopard- 

 skin mat, with the right leg hanging down and his 

 IS appearance. ijody almost naked — one of his titles is Hc-ru-ka-pa, 

 ( LATB .) -which means " unclad." His complexion is dark 



blue. A chaplet of skulls encircles his brow. In his left hand is a 

 skull cup filled with blood, and a trident topped with human heads 



' Sems-rfpah chhen-po. I ^ «byin-dak. 



• iiig-Xdsin chhcn-po, or ' the great Sage,' J * PLun tshog*. 

 ' /•nam-rgjal. 



