 Since the monastery had offered resistance it was considered fit to loot – several old and valuable "thankas" duly surfaced at Christie's later in the summer and were sold for high prices.Tibetan responses to the invasion so far had comprised almost entirely static defences and sniping from the mountains at the passing column, neither tactic proving effective.Apart from the failed assault on Chang Lo two months previously, the Tibetans had not made any sallies against British positions.