Even as He went so go I, forsaking the ease of my monastery.

There was with me when I left the hills a chela [disciple] who begged for me as the Rule demands, but halting in Kulu awhile a fever took him and he died.

I have now no chela, but I will take the alms-bowl and thus enable the charitable to acquire merit.' He nodded his head valiantly.

Learned doctors of a lamassery do not beg, but the lama was an enthusiast in this quest.
'Be it so,' said the Curator, smiling.

'Suffer me now to acquire merit.