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machine, having been once set a going, moves on, in one uniform and" 
incessant round: whilst enthusiasm is sufficiently kept alive by the 
frequent recurrence of public festivals, in which all are seen to take a 
share, celebrating them with the most extravagant pageantry and os¬ 
tentatious parade. 
The sober and reflecting character of the Tibetians, exhibits a dif- 
ferentpicture. Among them, all is system and order. The mind readily 
obeys the superiority it has been accustomed to acknowledge. A 
sovereign Lama, immaculate, immortal, omnipresent, and omniscient, 
is placed at the summit of their fabric. He is esteemed the vicegerent 
of the only God, the mediator between mortals and the Supreme. They 
view him only in the most amiable light, as perpetually absorbed in 
religious duty; arid, when called to bestow attention on mortal beings, 
as employed only in the benign office of distributing comfort and con¬ 
solation by his blessing, and in exercising the first of all attributes, 
forgiveness and mercy. He is also the centre of all civil government, 
which derives from his authority all its influence and power. At the 
same time that he is the soul which animates their whole system, a 
regular gradation, from the most venerated Lama, through the whole 
order of Gylongs to the young noviciate, is observed with rigid 
severity. 
The inferior gradations from the president of a monastery, who is 
always styled Lama, in addition to the name of the station to which 
he belongs, are Gylong, Tohba, and Tuppa. 
On the establishment of the monastery of Teshoo Loomboo, were 
reckoned, at that period, no less than three thousand seven hundred 
