In The
Middle Was Tamba-Shi-Rob, The Great Doctor Of The Sect Of The Peunbo,
Squatted With His Right Arm Outside His Red Scarf, And Holding In His Left
The Vase Of Knowledge....
On his right hand sat Keumta-Zon-bo, 'the All-
Good,' ...
With ten hands and three heads, one over the other.... At his
right is Dreuma, the most celebrated goddess of the sect. On the left of
Tamba-Shi-Rob was another goddess, whose name they never could tell me. On
the left again of this anonymous goddess appeared Tam-pla-mi-ber,... a
monstrous dwarf environed by flames and his head garnished with a diadem
of skulls. He trod with one foot on the head of Shakia-tupa [Shakya
Thubba, i.e. 'the Mighty Shakya,' the usual Tibetan appellation of Sakya
Buddha himself].... The idols are made of a coarse composition of mud and
stalks kneaded together, on which they put first a coat of plaster and
then various colours, or even silver or gold.... Four oxen would scarcely
have been able to draw one of the idols." Mr. Emilius Schlagintweit, in a
paper on the subject of this sect, has explained some of the names used by
the missionary. Tamba-Shi-Rob is "bstanpa gShen-rabs," i.e. the
doctrine of Shen-rabs, who is regarded as the founder of the Bon religion.
[Cf. Grenard, II. 407. - H. C.] Keun-tu-zon-bo is "Kun-tu-bzang-po,"
"the All Best."
[Bon-po seems to be (according to Grenard, II.
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