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...sign that it wishes to stay independent, Tibet decided last year, after centuries of mountain isolation, to send an ambassador to London. A prominent Tibetan, one Yuthok Dzasa, was chosen for the post, started his long trip down from the capital of Lhasa. He stopped off at Kalimpong, a small outpost in the hills of northeast India, to clear up the diplomatic preliminaries with Britain. In anticipation of the barbaric fashions of the Court of St. James's, Yuthok cut off his waist-length hair, the mark of a Tibetan layman* of distincton...
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