Word: lama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck convoys have gained control of a 200-square-mile area in eastern Tibet-most of the basin of the Brahmaputra River south of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. So far, they appear to be fighting more for themselves than in the name of the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, who with Red consent has managed to stay on his lacquered throne as Tibet's titular ruler...
...ruling Maharajah, 65-year-old Sir Tashi Namgyal, is the eleventh in a line of consecrated Lama rulers. He leaves politics to others. A shy, untraveled man with a pinched face and faint mustache, a delicate porcelain figurine who goes about in green-tinted glasses, Tibetan cap and a golden bakkhu (robe), the Maharajah paints Sikkim's misty peaks and glaciers in a surprisingly abstract style. Recently he had a "vision" of the Abominable Snowman, put him on canvas as a skinny, jet-black creature with a red face, carrying a naked pink lady across the peaks...
...richer last week as he lay ill in his Irish cottage. Outside, flocks of tourists, alerted by front-page treatment of the expose in the British press, trampled the lawn. The embarrassed publishing firm of Seeker & Warburg suspended plans for publication of Hoskin's next book, Medical Lama. Said a U.S. spokesman for Doubleday: "We expected that people would think it was good reading, but not necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer) insisted, in a tape recording made...
Rampa claimed to have been a confidant and adviser to the Dalai Lama, to have served as a medical officer in the Chinese army during World War II, to have done time in Japanese and Russian concentration camps and to have visited the U.S. "We Tibetans," wrote Rampa, "believe that everyone before the Fall of Man had the ability to travel in the astral, see by clairvoyance, telepathize and levitate." Levitation "takes much practice," but astral traveling "can be accomplished by almost anyone...
...Gladly," replies the questing lama. His lamasery has been occupied for 300 years with but one project-finding and listing j the 9 billion names of God. The explanation satisfies Dr. Wagner and he packs the Mark V Computer off to Tibet with two technicians, George and Chuck. As "electromatic" typewriters tap out the giant brain's findings, George and Chuck begin to have qualms. The high lama believes that the world will come to an end when Mark V emits the 9 billionth name of God. What if the monks turn violent when the Last Trump fails...