Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before leaving Lhasa, the Dalai Lama was hastily invested with full power as the ruler of Tibet and the regency abolished. In command of his country for the first time, just as it seemed on the point of dissolution, the Dalai Lama withdrew to the Indian border but did not cross over. Since it was clear that no power on earth was interested in aiding Tibet, the God-King opened negotiations at a distance with Red China. In May 1951, a 17-point agreement was signed between the two nations: Red China agreed that Tibet could retain autonomy and promised...
...reverently submitted through his Cabinet. It was even worse to demand that the Living Buddha attend a meeting alone without his ceremonial train of senior abbots and court officials. On hearing the news, the Dalai Lama's mother burst into tears. Thousands of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general and begged the consul to accompany them while they handed a protest petition to the Red Chinese. The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken from them. Hidden stores of arms were passed...
...March 17 the Dalai Lama, his mother, sister and two brothers, guarded by a fanatic escort, slipped out of Lhasa and moved north, where there were few Chinese patrols. Traveling only at night, the party carefully circled the city and headed south toward the Indian border. On March 19 the fighting started...
Assam to the airfield at Bomdila, he was welcomed by officials of the Indian government before being flown to a mountain resort at a safe distance from the Tibetan border-so as not to give offense to Red China. He will be inundated by the good wishes of the free world, but for the foreseeable future, the Dalai Lama and 3,000,000 Tibetan patriots can only put their trust-as their ancestors did before them -in the Three Precious Jewels of Tibetan Buddhism: the Buddha, the Doctrine and the Community...
...Madras" Symphony was scored for a normal symphony orchestra minus trumpets, trombones and tubas. Added were tablas (tuned Indian hand drums) and the jalatarang (a set of eleven porcelain rice bowls of different pitch, depending on size and thickness). The players of the tablas and jalatarang had their entrance cues but were otherwise free to improvise, if necessary, around Cowell's themes. It was a languorous, curiously hypnotic work, with a wavering melodic line that occasionally died away before syncopated flights of the tablas. Said one Indian observer: "A mood as lovely as twilight...