Word: dalai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India last week, an official of the Dalai Lama's court described the bloodless conquest of Tibet by the Chinese Communists. His story could be read as a sort of parable of how Communism vanquishes the isolated, the timid and the unwary...
After a despairing conference with his advisers, Tibet's ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, made a hasty flight from his capital. Ahead of him went a thousand-mule train carrying 75 tons of the palace treasures. Before leaving, the Lama's government notified Chinese Communist headquarters that it was defenseless and ready to sue for peace. The new rulers of Tibet radioed back instructions to all government officers to stay...
News of the December defeat in Korea swept like a winter blizzard through Tibet's remote mountain passes, where another Red Chinese army is invading. Communist prestige soared. Tibet's boy ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, last fortnight left his capital, Lhasa, on what the Indian government representative in Tibet described as "an official tour." Indian newspapers reported that the Lama was planning to set up a new seat of government at Yatung, a town in the Chumbi valley just across the Himalayan divide separating Tibet from the Indian-protected state of Sikkim...
...missionaries plod Kalimpong's streets, panting to explore Tibet and its particular brand of Buddhism, but lacking permission to get in. Last week, as they have since the Chinese Reds invaded Tibet in October, Kalimpongians waited breathlessly, along with rumormongering newsmen (TIME, Nov. 20), to welcome the Dalai Lama should he flee from Lhasa into their midst, as his predecessor did in 1910. The town had one big worry. If he comes, will the Tibetan God-King bring enough sheets? In 1910 frenzied devotees kept ripping the exalted exile's linen to bits to preserve as sacred objects...
...emergency investiture. Traditionally, the Dalai Lama waits for his 18th birthday before formally assuming power. By staging the ceremony two years ahead of schedule, Lhasa's theocrats seemed to be preparing for the worst. They closed the regency of septuagenarian Takta Rimpoche, abbot of Tiger Rock Monastery. They bolstered the spiritual position of the Dalai Lama should he be forced to leave Lhasa for exile abroad and should the Communists try to install a rival on his throne...