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whom displays the title of «Father of the Human Pain», «Lord of the Lords of Karma», and
«Supreme Master of the Kâlachakra».

Thenceforth, the duskhas, descendant population of the mythical Dusk, guarded
zealously the region and edified the Temple to Ridgen Djapo on the «White Isle», named thus in
memory to Chang Swetadvipa, the «White Isle of the North», invisible to the human eyes and
seat of the Door of Chang Shamabalah, the Mansion of the Bodhisatvas. As the centuries went
by, the population of the duskhas grew, as the number of their community of lamas, being
obeyed to raise the enormous Gompa Ashram Jafran, which they surrounded with beauty
Pagodas, dedicated to the cult of diverse Deities of the White Fraternity. The isle with its
Temple, was located very near to the West shore of the lake; in front of it, was ereceted in firm
groud the Monastery with its ring of Pagodas; and a little behind, forming a wide semi-cyrcle
that covered and protected at the same time the set of religious buildings, was the village of the
duskhas.

The Hoang-Ho, or Yellow River, has always constituted in that region a triple frontier
between the Kingdoms of the Tibet, of Mongolia and China. For thousands of years the invader
armies, coming from such-and-such Kingdom, passed before the Ashram Jafran, respeting
frequently their status of religious community but in some opportunities trying to occupy the
village or subjecting it to the pillage. That reality forced the duskhas to fortify the area,
constructing an elevated wall of stone in form of «U», which went from shore to shore of the
lake Kyaring: in the aperture of the «U», in front of the open space in the lake between the
extremes of the wall, was the White Isle with the Temple and the prisoner that we wanted to
realease.

And in the base of the «U», which was the front of the walled city, was an enormous
wooden door, framed on two elevated towers that worked as atalaya, permanently occupied by
armed watchmen. On both angles of the «U» also existed huge towers with their respective
sentinels.

It is good to clarify that such measures of security had appeared by the force of the
circumstances, that’ to say, by the necessity to protect the Temples and the Ashram before
possible invaders, because the duskhas lacked absolutely, even for their ferocity for the Ritual
Sacrifice, of warrior vocation. They conformed, instead, a people of innate Priests, whose
members entered in early ages in the practice of the Cult and lived always ascetically, displaying
a rigorism beyond mounts. They were not warriors only, but the war caused them essential
horror, and they imagined it as a consequence of the human error, of the blindness of men,
who didn’t see, as them, the Benignity of the Creator Gods of the Universe.

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