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...lama of the Kum Bum Monastery vanished into thin...
NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD- Gordon Enders with Edward Anthony- Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Interesting account of an enterprising U. S. aviator who grew up on the border of Tibet at the time of the Younghusband expedition, became an intimate adviser of the Panchen Lama. The book is filled with plausible explanations of international intrigue over Tibet, contains 64 unusual photographs. THROUGH FORBIDDEN TIBET-Harrison Forman - Longmans, Green ($3.50). More romantic record of the journey of a young U. S. airplane salesman in China who was attracted to Tibet by stories of a mountain higher than Everest, and by accounts...
There was new fighting in Outer Mongolia last week between Mongolian and Manchukuan troops. Details were scarce and the Nationalist Government in Nanking preferred to think of other things. And they had good news to think about. Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas, the Panchen Lama, or spiritual head, and the Dalai Lama or temporal head of Buddhism. British intrigue found the Dalai Lama more willing to listen to reason. The Panchen Lama fled to China, where for the past eleven years he has been traveling about in a bright yellow railway...
Months ago General Huang Mu-sung of the Nationalist Government led a Chinese mission deep into Tibet to see what effect all this kindness, all this money had had. The time seemed most propitious. The British-controlled Dalai Lama had died in December 1933, and according to immemorial tradition his spirit was announced to have found residence in the body of a small button-eyed Tibetan moppet, chosen by wheel-spinning Buddhist priests. Until he reaches his majority the new Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew...
Anthropological studies of the natives will be made by Mr. Bowles in the Ladak country, ju which the base camp will be located. The people are known as Ladaki, and are almost entirely of Tibetan stock. They are Lama Buddhists in religion. The famed Cashmir wool comes from Ladak...