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overcame me. With a heart full of the most poignant grief, and eyes bathed 
in tears, I repaired to the yellow chapel, where, with my own hands, I burned 
perfumes to him. 
Although I am well aware, that to come and to go, are but as the same 
thing to the Punjun Irtinnee, yet when I reflect, that he made a most long 
and painful journey, for the sole purpose of doing honour to the day of my 
Ouan-cheou ; and that after having fulfilled that object, it was not his fate to 
return in tranquillity, as I had hoped, to the place of his usual abode : this 
reflection, I say, is distressing to me beyond all expression. To console me 
in some degree, or, at least, to attempt some alleviation of my griefs, I have 
resolved to render memorable, the day of his regeneration. I named for the 
guard of his body Chang-tchaopa, Soui-boun-gue, and some other grandees; 
and gave them particular orders for the construction of a receptacle for it, 
worthy of such precious remains, which lie in the interior of the yellow 
temple. I gave directions also for making a shrine of gold, in which should 
be deposited the body of the Irtinnee. This was executed by the twenty-first 
day of the twelfth moon. I then regulated the hundred days of prayer, 
counting from that day, on which he disappeared. It was only to alleviate, 
however little, the grief in which my heart was overwhelmed, that I acted so. 
I also caused several towers to be erected in different places, which I consi¬ 
dered as so many palaces that he might have planned himself for varying 
his abode, or such as I might have assigned to him for his recreation. I 
bestowed bounties, on his behalf, to the most eminent of his disciples, and to 
the principal Houtouktous. I gave them soutchous of pearls, with permission 
to wear them ; and I particularly distinguished the brother of Irtinnee, by 
con r erring on him the title of prince of the efficient prayer. I did not 
neglect the Tchasak Lamas, in the distribution of my gifts. Several amongst 
them, were decorated with honourable titles, and received from me, soutchous 
of pearls, pieces of silk, and other things, with which they appeared to be 
My design, in entering with you into this detail, is, to prove to you the 
estimation in which I hold whatever is connected with you, and the profound 
