Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 1/The Obo
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THE OBO.
P. 76.
Of the Obo, or sacred cairn of the Lamas, probably a relic of their primeval superstitions, a representation is given in Kircher's account of the journey of Grueber and Dorville, who characterise it thus: 'Trophæa quæ in summis montium cum adoratione magno Lamæ diriguntur, pro conservatione hominum et equorum.'[1]
Turner describes such a trophæum on the boundary between Bhotan and Tibet.—[Y.]
- ↑ China Illustrata, p. 70.