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During the conversation he informed us that he knew there were several peling countries, and telling them off on his fingers he gave us the extent of his knowledge of the geography of the outside world, composed, he said, of the following countries: England, London, Paris,
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A man soon passed us on the gallop, and we presumed he was on his way to notify his ponbo that the peling or Englishman (the only name all foreigners are known by in that part of Tibet), had succeeded in getting beyond the guard, who had probably received orders not to use any violence towards us.
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He told us that no peling had ever been there before, that he could not permit us to go any further into Tibet, and that we must return over the same route we had come by.
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The young chief turned to his confreres and said how strange it was to see a foreigner so different from any peling they had ever seen before; we knew their customs, spoke their language, wore their clothes, and even had read their sacred literature.
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It sometimes signifies mere magic but the higher forms of it, such as the _ngelmoe peling_, are said to teach that the contemplative life is the way to the knowledge of
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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He had recognized the bond between us of our being the only "strangers in a strange land," and though several Tibetans said that I was not Chinese but peling, he gave them no heed; while I opened my heart to him and told him of the fate of our caravan, of our little son's death, of our being robbed, and then of the awful separation from my husband – with the subsequent necessity of my traveling alone.
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