ABSTRACT
At the foot of the Trashilhumpo Monastery there is a tiny village. In this our two Tibetan companions had a house. By this time we had become such friends that they invited us to make use of it during our stay in Shigatsé instead of going to a rest-house in the city proper. The invitation we gladly accepted. We decided to spend the whole of the next day (February 6) in Shigatsé in order to give ourselves and the animals a much-needed rest. We thus had the opportunity of looking about the city and entering the monastery, to which so many thousands of pilgrims come every year.
