Untitled - Life and Culture on the Tibetan Plateau

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1 ོད་དས་གཙང་ལ་སོང་ན།
2 ་མ་ཚའི་མཇལ་དར་ཉན་ན།
3 འདི་ཨ་ཁུ་དཔོན་དགའ་གི་དགའ་གས་ཁོང་གི་ཁོང་ནོན་ེ་དར་ི་མ་མེད་པ་ཟིག་ཡིན་
ཟེར་་རེད།
1 When (this is) taken to the upper area, Dbus gtsang,
2 It is suitable for mjal dar 71 for the lamas.
3 It is said that this pure kha btags is the reward that shall
purge the sngags pa's spirit of annoyance.
Don 'grub rgya mtsho, 'brug mo, <strong>and</strong> Tshe ring rnam rgyal
sang mgur to Lhun grub individually. Ten minutes later, the
females returned all the gifts except for the kha btags. Phyag
rdor skyid also returned all the gifts to Dpal mo mtsho's
family. Lhun grub kept only kha btags <strong>and</strong> kha ba.
All the villagers except for sha nye members left for their
own homes after this.
EVENING OF THE PARTY DAY
Maternal Relatives Were Welcomed <strong>and</strong> Offered Food
Dpal mo mtsho's middle maternal uncle, Pag mo tshe ring,
was ill during the time of Dpal mo mtsho's hair changing
ceremony. Consequently, his son, Dngos grub, who currently
lives with Dpal mo mtsho's uncle, represented him as the A
zhang zhang bo. At two p.m. on the party day, thirty-two A
zhang (most from Mes nyag yar ka Village) gathered at
Dngos grub's home <strong>and</strong> five A zhang from Brag dmar nang
Village joined them on the way to Brag dmar nang Village.
Dngos grub's family offered pork, steamed buns, steamed
stuffed dumplings, <strong>and</strong> tea. After the meal, he offered them
three bottles of Yiping Huzhu liquor, ten bottles of Yellow
River beer, <strong>and</strong> three packages of Furong cigarettes. After
they finished the liquor <strong>and</strong> beer, they all dressed in Tibetan
lambskin robes <strong>and</strong> phrug, except for seven people who
71 Silk given as a greeting gift to lamas.
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