LIST OF GOMPAS. 



257 



There is no regular asylum for animals rescued from the butchers 

 ^ , • , to save some person from pending death. Occa- 



Eansomed animals. • n i ^ Ai j i p i • 



sionally such ransomed cattle are to be found m 

 the neighboui'hood of monasteries where their pension-expenses have 

 been covered by a donation from the party cured. The animals have 

 their ears bored for a tuft of coloured rags as a distinctive mark. 



Not far from most monasteries are fertile fields of muriua {Eietisine 

 corocana) from which is made the country beer, 

 a beverage which the Sikhim monks do not deny 

 themselves. 



In the following table is given, what is described as, a complete 

 list of monastei'ies in native Sikhim with the 



List of 

 monasteries. 



Sikhim 



number of the monks in each, from official infor- 

 mation supplied by Lama Ugydn Gyatsho: — 



List of Monasteries in Sikhim. 



