52 Gaur Das Bysack — Notes on a Buddhist Monastery [No. 1, 
“ The two leaves of the window, which open inwards, close np against 
" the stouter bars.” 
The locality goes by the name of Bhot Bagdn, y the structure is 
called Bhot Mandir or Ma(h, the priest in charge of it is styled Bhot- 
Gosairfi or Bhof-Mahant , s and the ghat passes under the designation 
of Bhot-Mahant’s Ghat. 
Inside the Math ai-e to be seen a lot of idols of the Hindu and 
mostly of the Tibeto-Buddhist mythology. Among the former may 
be mentioned those of Yishpu, Durga, Yindhyavasini, Ganowi, Copula, 
S'alagratna, and S'iva-lingas of various sorts, including the rare oviform 
ones of three different colours, also S'iva’s bull ; and among the latter 
those of Arya Tara, Mah&kala Bhairava, Sambhara Ohalcra, Samaja 
Guhya, Vajra Bhrukuti and Pad timpani. 4 There are also a stamp of 
Kapila Muni’s foot, and a pair of hharams or wooden sandals. A 
description of the first five Tibetan divinities, by my friend Baku Sarat 
Chandra Das, is given below. Such a room full of images is 
designated Lha-khang 6 in Tibet. On the ground immediately be- 
* Bhot Bagdn, lit., 1 Tibet garden.’ Bhot or Bhod is the name by which the 
Tibetans call their country ; bdgdn is the Bengali form of the plural of the Persian 
b agh, 1 garden.’ 
a Bhof Oosain, lit, Tibet Gosain. Oosain (properly gosdhn J is the ver- 
nacular form of Goswami, which has sevoral literal significations such as master 
or possessor of lcine, controller of the organs of the senses, the comprehendor of 
the OdyatH, the lord of the earth or of the heaven. In these latter significations the 
term implies a holy man, a religious teacher or a saint. Among the S'aivas, or fol- 
lowers of S'iva, the Udasts, or non-householders, prevail more than in any other 
sect, and they pass under the designation of Sannydsis or Oomiimn, though the latter 
appellation is appropriated in Bengal by the Vaixhnava gurus, specially the follow- 
ers of Ohaitanya, the descendants of Adwaita and Nityitnanda. In the Upper Pro- 
vinces the torm Sddhu is applied to tho Vaishnava Udasis, and Gosain to tho S'aiva 
Sannyasis. The people of the two persuasions are easily distinguished by their tilalcas 
or lines paintod on the forehead. 
8 Bhof Mahanta, lit. a mahanta or chief or superior of a Tibetan monastery. 
The torm Mahanta generally signifies the head of a religious establishment of the 
mendicant orders. 
4 This is tho name of the Boddhisatva who incarnated himself as Gednn-tubpa, 
a reformer, who received the spirit of the previous reformer Tsong-khapa in 1419, and 
built the monastery of Tashi Lbunpo in 1445 and repeatedly appeared as a Tashi Lama. 
* Lha-Khang (%('[* 5') Lha is the Tibetan for gods and spirits who, by transmi- 
gration into other bodies in blissful regions, reap the rewards of their meritorious 
deeds. They are invoked and revered. There are six places for the transmigration 
of the soul of every living being. 
