The lama mounted a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles of Chinese work . ` Here is the little door through which we bring wood before winter . And thou -- the English know of these things ? He who is now Abbot of Lung-Cho told me , but I did not believe . The Lord -- the Excellent One -- He has honour here too ? And His life is known ? ' ` It is all carven upon the stones . Come and see , if thou art rested . ' Out shuffled the lama to the main hall , and , the Curator beside him , went through the collection with the reverence of a devotee and the appreciative instinct of a craftsman . Incident by incident in the beautiful story he identified on the blurred stone , puzzled here and there by the unfamiliar Greek convention , but delighted as a child at each new trove . Where the sequence failed , as in the Annunciation , the Curator supplied it from his mound of books -- French and German , with photographs and reproductions . Here was the devout Asita , the pendant of Simeon in the Christian story , holding the Holy Child on his knee while mother and father listened ; and here were incidents in the legend of the cousin Devadatta . Here was the wicked woman who accused the Master of impurity , all confounded ; here was the teaching in the Deer-park ; the miracle that stunned the fire-worshippers ; here was the Bodhisat in royal state as a prince ; the miraculous birth ; the death at Kusinagara , where the weak disciple fainted ; while there were almost countless repetitions of the meditation under the Bodhi tree ; and the adoration of the alms-bowl was everywhere . In a few minutes the Curator saw that his guest was no mere bead-telling mendicant , but a scholar of parts . And they went at it all over again , the lama taking snuff , wiping his spectacles , and talking at railway speed in a bewildering mixture of Urdu and Tibetan . He had heard of the travels of the Chinese pilgrims , Fu-Hiouen and Hwen-Tsiang , and was anxious to know if there was any translation of their record . He drew in his breath as he turned helplessly over the pages of Beal and Stanislas Julien . '' Tis all here . A treasure locked . ' Then he composed himself reverently to listen to fragments hastily rendered into Urdu .
For the first time he XXXXX of the labours of European scholars , who by the help of these and a hundred other documents have identified the Holy Places of Buddhism .
Come accused bring heard holding identified listened locked mounted told