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  • Europeans Dûgpas -- a title properly belonging, as is quite correctly explained by Surgeon-Major Waddell in his recent work on _The Buddhism of Tibet_, only to the Bhotanese subdivision of the great Kargyu sect, which is part of what may be called the semi-reformed school of

    The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena 1890

  • It is well, perhaps, he is so: for if a race, numerically so weak, were to embroil itself by resenting the injuries of the warlike Ghorkas, or dark Bhotanese, the folly would soon lead to destruction.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Bhotanese, the Sikkim Rajah being under British protection.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Bhotanese, and kidnapping is constantly practised on this frontier.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • The Bhotanese, natives of Bhotan, or of the Dhurma country, are called Dhurma people, in allusion to their spiritual chief, the

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • The race to which he belongs is a very singular one; markedly Mongolian in features, and a good deal too, by imitation, in habit; still he differs from his Tibetan prototype, though not so decidedly as from the Nepalese and Bhotanese, between whom he is hemmed into a narrow tract of mountain country, barely 60 miles in breadth.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • The inhabitants of this district more resemble the Bhotanese than

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • The Bhotanese are more industrious than the Lepchas, and better husbandmen; besides having superior crops of all ordinary grains, they grow cotton, hemp, and flax.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • The Bhotanese were rude and boisterous in their pursuits, constantly complaining to the

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • An attentive examination of the Lepcha in one respect entirely contradicts our preconceived notions of a mountaineer, as he is timid, peaceful, and no brawler; qualities which are all the more remarkable from contrasting so strongly with those of his neighbours to the east and west: of whom the Ghorkas are brave and warlike to a proverb, and the Bhotanese quarrelsome, cowardly, and cruel.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

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