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Died. Chang Chia Hutukhtu, 64, among the most important "Living Buddhas" (not to be confused with Baltimore resident Dilowa Hutukhtu who defended Far East expert Owen Lattimore in 1950 against charges of aiding Communists in China, and who is known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died...
...Dilowa isn't physically so old, godson David Lattimore '52 explained. But his soul is the 18th reincarnation of an early saint named Dilowa. When the original holy man died, local Lama leaders picked the first male born in the area as the obvious reincarnation. The process has continued over since, subject to political ocrruption of the choosing authorities...
...Dilowa came to the United States last year at the bidding of the United States government and his old friend Owen Lattimore, Professor in the Page School of international Relations at Johns Hopkins and father of godson David. The (physically) 60-year-old Gegen tells seminar students in the Page School about Mongolian history and customs, and spends his spare time at home with the Lattimores in Baltimore...
...Dilowa speaks to his godson David in a combination of Chinese and sign language. They make remarkably few mistakes, but neither do they any much. Lattimore was able to get a decision from the Lama as to whether he should be called Dilowa Gegen or Dilowa Hutukhtu in this story: The Mongolian averred that, while Hutukhtu also denotes part of his political position, Gegen is the more specific name...
...Dilowa stayed with Lattimore in Adams House yesterday. When asked how she let the Lama in without a necktie, the checker in the Adams House dining hall emphasized the need to make exceptions, sometimes...