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where there is a small Monastery be went on to Sakya Monastery where 
he stayed ten dnys. From there he went on to Tashi Llninpo, which took 
five days, and stayed there for three weeks. He then went on to Ramba, 
where he stayed four months at the Monastery, where he read the 
“Kangyur” (bkah-agyur) and was admitted as a monk and given the 
monks dress. From there he went on to Lhasa where he arrived March 
1901, and at once obtained admission as a novice (Drapa) at the Monastery 
of Sera, and pursued his studies there until he had to leave in June, 1902, 
as his identity then became known to certain persons and he had to es^ 
cape so as to prevent his being taken for a foreign spy. During the 
time he was at Sera he practiced as a doctor in Lhasa and in this way 
made a number of friends amongst the influential men, and officials, and 
it was on this account that he was able to get away, and also to bring 
with him the collection of Tibetan books which he had occupied his 
time in making and which was the object of his visit. 
He did not himself wish to leave Lhasa and wished to represent 
his case to the Dalai Lama that he was himself a Buddhist and had 
merely visited the country in disguise as a Tibetan monk for religious 
purposes with the object of learning the Tibetan Buddhist teaching. 
His friends, however, dissuaded him from doing this, as they feared his 
discovery as a foreigner would compromise them ; as it would be held 
that they ought to have discovered the fact before and reported it, 
and it was on their advice that he at once secretly made his escape before 
his identity was generally known. 
Mr. Ekai Kawa Gfochi remained for some time in Darjeeling, during 
which time I saw him on several occasions. He then proceeded to again 
visit Kathmandu, where he spent some time, and has since returned 
to Japan. 
The list of books , brought from Lhasa .—The list contains the names 
of 85 books. In the second column will be found the name of the book 
with a transliteration in the Roman Character. In the transliteration I 
have used the letter a for the prefix and the others are transliterated 
by their corresponding Roman letter without and diacritical marks. 
In the third column are given the particulars of the book. The 
size of the leaf, the printing press or other place that it was obtained 
from, and the price paid for it. 
As the width of the margin of the paper left round the printed 
wood-block that forms each page varies considerably I have also noted 
the size of the actual printing on the leaf as well as the size of the leaf 
itself. As all Tibetan books are printed on both sides of the paper the 
number of pages in each case is double the number of the leaves; as 
