1922.] Concerning a Bon Image. 199 
two other snakes. In that case the necklace itself would prob- 
ably also be a snake, and then there would be three snakes 
bered as to the length of the hair worn by Bon-po lamas. The 
Nying-ma-pas also wear their hair long when becoming hermits, 
SAA, and Percival Landon mentions in his Lhasa (p. 123 
of the one-volume edition, p. 227 of Vol. I in the two-volume 
edition) that long hair is the mark of the immured Nyen-dé- 
kyi-buk hermits. (According to oral information this is the 
name of a monastery, ATIF HVAT, the happy caves of 
upper Nyang.) 
