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E. H. C. Walsh —Tibetan boohs from Lahsa. 
[No. 2, 
A list of Tibetan boohs brought from Lhasa by the Japanese monk , Mr. Ekai 
Kaiva Gochi.—By E. H. C. Walsh, 1.0.S. 
The books which are contained in the following list are a collection 
which was brought from Lhasa by a Japanese monk, Mr. Ekai Kawa 
Gochi, who kindly placed them at my disposal when in Darjeeling on 
his way back from Lhasa in the summer of 1902. Mr. Ekai Kawa 
Gochi who is a doctor of the Tokio University visited Tibet with the 
purpose of studying Tibetan Buddhism at Lhasa and also of making a 
collection of such valuable books from the point of view of Buddhist 
Religion and Doctrine, as he could obtain, to take back to Japan for his 
University, and the result of a year’s, work in this respect, during the 
time that he remained as a monk in the great monastery of Sera, and 
practiced as a doctor of medicine in Lhasa itself is contained in the 
present list. 
Before referring more fully to the ist 1 will therefore give a short 
description of Mr. Ekai Kawa Gochi himself. 
Mr. Ekai Kawa Gochi, who is a Japanese and a Buddhist by religion, 
is 34 years of age. He came to India in 1898, with letters of recommen¬ 
dation from Mr. Bonio Nanju, Professor of Sanskrit in the Tokio Univer¬ 
sity, to Rai Sarat Chandra Das, Bahadur. He remained for two years in 
Darjeeling where he lived with Rai Sarat Chandra Das, Bahadur, and 
under his supervision studied Tibetan, from Lama Shab Dung. When he 
had acquired a sufficient knowledge of Tibetan he started in February, 
1900, for Tibet. Having first visited Gaya he went on to Nepal and 
after staying there a month with a Lama at the Temple of Muktanath 
at Kathmandu he went on to Tsha rong, on the frontier of Tibet, where 
he remained for a year studying Tibetan with a Geshe (Professor) of 
the Sera Monastery who lived there. He then started on his journey s 
in Tibet. He first visited Lake Mansarowar and Mount Kailash where 
he spent three months at the Monastery of “ Pretapuri.” From here he 
went to Harjye, a journey which took him three months and lay through 
desert, of sandy and grass land, where he used to obtain accommodation 
in the Tents of the Nomads, who graze large herds of yaks. From Harjye 
