| There are 93 ethnic groups in Nepal, 103 spoken languages and dialects, over 3,000 temples and 1,200 monasteries and lamaseries. |
| But the Valley of Lhasa still slept, still lived in the deepest darkness of night, not until the Sun lifted well above the mountains would the deep-lying lamaseries and houses welcome daylight. |
| Other lamaseries are small, possessing but a hundred monks and all housed in one building. |
| 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. |
| It introduced Tibet from the viewpoint of an insider who had studied in the great lamaseries of Lhasa. |
| Far beyond were the mountain ranges and the dotted hermitages, and the great heaps of different lamaseries. |
