| The remote eastern Fastnesses, like lamaseries, where Foretellers channel the future in a rite of intense, nearly savage carnality. |
| It introduced Tibet from the viewpoint of an insider who had studied in the great lamaseries of Lhasa. |
| They claimed that no real monks had joined the rebels, only impostors in monks' clothing yet they explained their shelling of the Lhasa lamaseries by saying that these were rebel strong-points. |
| The butter lamps of far distant lamaseries gleaming through the cold clear air of the Plain of Lhasa. |
| Far beyond were the mountain ranges and the dotted hermitages, and the great heaps of different lamaseries. |
| Although influenced by Tibetan Buddhism as well as by rituals from nearby lamaseries, the Limbu observe a traditional religion, worshipping a chief god, Niwa Buma, and mountain and river deities. |
