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Five minutes early for the Chekhov lecture, Vag got a choice seat on the floor with his knees doubled up under him. He thought more about Buddha than "The Cherry Orchard" that night. Then he pulled in at a quarter before the hour to hear the one-man debate on Barrie vs. Galsworthy and sat in great discomfort on a window ledge...
...most benighted. Tibet is one of the world's last theocracies: its culture centres about its religion, Lamaism, a form of Buddhism which was brought up from India through the Himalayan passes in the 7th Century. This hierarchical faith, with its priests, abbots, lamas (monks), hutukhtus ("Living Buddhas"), is headed by two infallible incarnations-the Panchen Lama, a spiritual teacher or "Buddha of Boundless Light," and the Dalai Lama, a temporal sovereign, the "Buddha of Mercy...
...city prepared for the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama. In Tibet had arrived a chubby, button-eyed, four-and-a-half-year-old boy, nicknamed by reporters "the Kokonor Kid" (after his birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing can be done without bribery. Last fortnight General Wu visited Tibet...
Marshal Wu was touched. "Wait," he said. "Let me ask Buddha...
...keep the ins in and the outs out. In modern times, only Dalai Lama who did not die mysteriously before reaching his majority has been Ngawang Lopsang Toupden Gyatso. In 1893, shortly before he took office, he thoughtfully ordered his regent and other advisers thrown into dungeons. As "Buddha of Mercy" he then had a long and prosperous life. If the 14th Reincarnation learns this much about the 13th, he may think it wise to do the same...