154 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (May, 1905, 
the latter. Gushri Khan caused him to be packed in a hide! and 
thenthrew him into the river. He then commenced the pious work of 
establishing a University with thirteen colleges, which were called 
ing or divisions, at Lhasa, for the education of both the laity and 
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, such as—Bushing (probably Bushahir), Yambu (Nepal), 
Negah-ri (Ladak), ete. T 
regard hi i 
being mysteriously poisoned. During the reigns of these kings 
the office of the Desrid was successively filled by Pon poo 
Lozang Jin hree years n it passed to the layman 
Sangye Gyatsho who held it for nearly twenty-five years from the 
year Earth-sheep, during which ti completed the building 
. g Marpo- 
In the year Fire-tiger there was war between the Khalkha and the 
Gileuth Mongols. The hierarch of Gahdan, named T’hi-Lodol 
Lhabzang, the younger son of Ratna who was exiled, succeeded to 
t first act was to wreak vengeance? on the Desrid, 
Sangye Gyatsho, whohad been instrumental in bringing about his” 
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_ _} This punishment is called Ko-thdmgyab-pa, i.e., packing the criminal 
in hide or skin and then throwing him in the deep water of a river. This 
is the capital pnnishment that is inflicted on the higher class of criminals 19 
3 At this period it was suspected that the Lama authorities of the Yele_ 
low-cap Church were intriguing to kill the king (Lhabzang) by exorcis™- 
