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...second-highest ranking lama in the world, and the head of the Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhists spread the word to nearly 100 people at the Divinity School Tuesday night, but the appearance of Gwalya Karmapa was overshadowed by the more worldly doings of politicos like Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell earlier and the week and film director Alan J. Pakula and porn star Harry Reems later...
Gwalya Karmapa, the second-highest ranking living lama, is spending three months in the United States teaching the beliefs of his Buddhist order, Dharmadhatu. He came at the invitation of Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity...
Grazing Camels. The basic tactic of China's border policy is the massive settlement of its Han people among the native inhabitants. In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, the 120,000 Chinese cadres are much in evidence, and the exiled Dalai Lama's Potala Palace is no more than a well-tended cultural relic. Urumchi, the capital of the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region, has grown from 80,000 people in 1949 to 800,000 today, of whom 60% are Han, only 40% the traditional nomadic peoples-Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Mongols...
...Potala, he said, it is used "to teach class education, Tibetan culture and language." Visitors are shown the Dalai Lama's brocade-lined private quarters at the very top of the palace. The long corridors, which were once dimly illuminated by lamps that burned yak butter, now have electric lights. But the palace's past is still evoked by a pantheon of Buddhist deities in prayer halls, and by the rows of sutras (books of Buddhist scripture) piled on wooden shelves...
...knives, whips, chains and an iron pot in which the hands of serfs were boiled. Secretary Schlesinger was also shown a picture of Broadcaster Lowell Thomas, who visited Tibet in 1949. The country's rulers consider Thomas an "American imperialist" because he sought, on behalf of the Dalai Lama, to obtain U.S. aid for Tibet against the Chinese in the late 1950s. Also on display were parachutes and U.S.-made radio transmitters, part of the equipment used in the Dalai Lama's rebellion. Explained one guide in Chinese: "The Dalai's traitorous clique couldn't bear...