Note 489 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
Reading edition
Marco Polo refers to five days or four days or three days in each month when the lamas or clergy of Tibetan Buddhism shed no blood and abstain from animal food (Sir Henry Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo,³ London, 1903, i, 220, 223). Compare N. Prejevalsky, Mongolia, London, 1876, i, 65.