Mr. William Woodville Rockhill,[115] speaking of the fair at Kumbum, says:
I found there a number of Lh'asa Tibetans (they call them Gopa here)
selling pulo, beads of various colors, saffron, medicines, peacock
feathers, incense sticks, etc. I had a talk with these traders,
several of whom I had met here before in 1889. * * * One of them had a
Swastika (yung-drung) tattooed on his hand, and I learned from this
man that this is not an uncommon mode of ornamentation in his
country.
Count D'Alviella says that the Swastika is continued among the Buddhists
of Tibet; that the women ornament their petticoats with it, and that it is
also placed upon the breasts of their dead.[116]
He also reports[117] a Buddhist statue at the Musée Guimet with Swastikas
about the base. He does not state to what country it belongs, so the
author has no means of determining if it is the same statue as is
represented in fig. 29.