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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 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...
...changed the hutukhtu's mind and brought him to Baltimore was Owen Lattimore, director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Asia Specialist Lattimore had met him once in China, and had been corresponding with him ever since...
Point of Departure. Last week the Dilowa Hutukhtu, urbane, erect and 66, was a Lattimore house guest in Baltimore's Ruxton suburb. He speaks Tibetan, Chinese, and everyday Mongol, reads the literary classical Mongol, which has changed little since the days of Genghis Khan. But since he understands no English, he will do no teaching yet. For the time being, he will be a research adviser on Mongolian culture and religion...
Lattimore hopes the hutukhtu's presence will be "the point of departure" for expanded courses on Mongolia. If all goes well, the hutukhtu may well settle down for a while, to resume in Baltimore the private life of study and prayer he knew at Naribanchin Sume...