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Word: kokonor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and Chinese power in Lhasa seemed amicably divided last week, as the city prepared for the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama. In Tibet had arrived a chubby, button-eyed, four-and-a-half-year-old boy, nicknamed by reporters "the Kokonor Kid" (after his birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kokonor Kid | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Kokonor Kid" has already been put to learning the mantras and tantras-Buddhist charms, incantations and prayers-which will fill his days as long as he lives. This week in the Potala, lavish with gold and lacquer and stinking with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kokonor Kid | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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