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pictures, not on sculptures or other plastic representations. 
The pictures in the J.B.7.S. are exceedingly crude and undistine- 
tive. 
That me Bon-pos possess, however, a rich variety of idols 
in plastic form is evident from the information quoted by 
Schlagintweit (op. cit., ig a p. 9) from the Annales [de la 
propagation. ae la foil, Vo 1. 
He he Pca found in the monastery 
they vai a which had been denuded of its ‘ Gétter- 
schmuckes,’ a great number of plastic representations, whilst 
the walls were covered with frescoes 
Desgodins (Le Thibet, 2e ed., Paris, 1885, p. 202) laments : 
‘The learned Pon bo say indeed that their Kuntu-zang-po 
(Supreme Spirit) is inmstate absolutely perfect, and they 
concede him even a certain eternity during which he created 
all beings. If they only yee there, one could, by means 
of a certain amount of explanation, arrive at some silabiaad- 
ing; but then they give their immaterial god a wooden or 
brass _body, in which they make him oa whom they wor- 
shi 
It is then evident that Bon-po idols must exist, but in the 
fliestere I have accessible I have found no authentic descrip- 
ti idol 
911, 
described as ‘ Divinité Bon-po’ and ‘ Image Bon-po.’ No. 316 is 
of ‘bois peint sculpté, cavalier vétu a la chinoise’; No. 317 
ed by animal-headed other garudas, ‘trés grossiérement 
traités,’ with an image of Gshen-rab-mi-bo in the upper part 
As Bacot’s collection numbers over 300 items and only three 
Bon-po images form part of it, one Chinese i in treatment, and 
the two others of rough w orkmanship, the inference is that 
truly Tibetan Bon-po images of good workmanship must be 
very rare. 
Grenard, in his Tibet (English translation, London, 1904), 
which has a valuable paragraph on the Bon religion n in chapter 
IX (Religion), states, on p. 325: ‘‘They profess a profound 
veneration for an idol called Kepang, made of a mere block of 

given do not furnish material throwing much light on the subject dis 
cussed as ere. From the brief accompanying text I quote only the follow- 
ing pass 
_ Teen Vihérs are still numerous and wealthy in Tibet. 
ignorant as his fellows, give one word of information as to the origin of 
is er etc, 
But Hodgson thinks that ‘‘ there can be no doubt it is an integral art 
of Buddhis 
