Word: dalai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of Tibetan monks, visiting Chungking last week, brought news from Lhasa. They reported that God's spiritual representative on earth, Tanchu, the eight-year-old Dalai Lama, is a holy prodigy. The monks said that four years of intensive training have made him a towering force in Tibet. He has a good voice, is a talented speaker. When he preaches, the audience stands and listens in silence "filled with respect and reverence...
...since 1924 has Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough...
...promote home industry, Italian cinemakers held a contest in Rome to find another (Italian) Shirley Temple. With no more trouble than Lamas have in discovering a new Dalai Lama, they found her: chubby Germana Calderini, aged seven...
Variously called Lama Tanchu, or Lama Dhondup, or Ehrlingh ("Divine Child"), the new Dalai Lama last fortnight took his official name: Jampel Ngag-Wang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyamtso, deriving from the names of earlier Dalai Lamas and meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific...
...with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will receive homage from the high lamas. After that, everyone will banquet. The Dalai Lama will undoubtedly exhibit great dignity during these ceremonies. As child lamas usually do, for some reason, he impressed everyone with his intelligence and composure when...