A set of 50 photographs and associated handwritten descriptive notes, acquired from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg. The complete notes, "1904 View of Great Tibet", are available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,94
"Every orthodox monastery in Tibet, even of the most reformed sects, keeps or patronizes a sorcerer, and consults him and follows his dictates upon most matters; and there are some cloisters near Lhasa especially devoted to instruction in this art. Such are Moru, Ramo-c'he and Kar-mas'a. The chief wizards are called, 'Defenders of the faith', (ch'osskyon) and the highest of these, namely, Na-ch'un is the government oracle, and is consulted on all important state occasions and undertakings." (pp.476-477)
Waddell, L.A. (1899). The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism. London: Luzac & Co. Available through Google Books at: http://books.google.com/books?id=V-DJFl8VBhEC&pg=RA1-PR7&d
