Word: harrer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robed lamas crouched on their haunches in a graveled courtyard while the 14-year-old Dalai Lama preached to them on the Tantric texts in a clear, boyish voice, but with the composure and assurance of an adult. A Tibetan-speaking Westerner was there, an Austrian named Heinrich Harrer, who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in India and painfully made his way to asylum in Lhasa. The debate that followed between the abbot and the Dalai Lama was a genuine contest of wits, says Harrer, in which the God-King was "never for a moment disconcerted," while...
...with a telescope with which he could examine the busy life of his city without ever being permitted to join in it. Each spring he traveled in solemn procession through ranks of bowing, weeping people to the summer palace; each autumn he solemnly returned to the Potala. The Austrian Harrer tutored him in Western science and technology, found in the Dalai Lama an insatiable urge for learning, a fascination with modern matters such as the construction of jet planes, but a total acceptance of his own godhead. Once, remarking on his previous incarnation as the 13th Dalai Lama, he said...
...eight years before and after World War II. They compiled lists of Rampa inaccuracies, e.g., mention of gold candlesticks, unknown in Tibet; description of Rampa's mother wearing a single earring, a privilege restricted to male officials of a certain rank. Joining forces with Austrian Author Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet), Pallis and Richardson decided to go to work on three-eyed Rampa with a private eye of their...