Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dalai Lama, his regent and five assistant ministers, who govern Tibet as a theocracy, at the capital, Po-Ta-La, near Lhasa...
TIBET, PAST AND PRESENT - Sir Charles Bell-Oxford University Press ($8.00). An authoritative and dignified account of the far past and near past history of the mysterious land of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, to whom the book is dedicated...
...Merrill ($2.00). Ommony-who knew as much about India as any white man could know-sought his sister and her husband in the Ahbor Valley, whence no man ever returned. He sought also the secret of the broken bit of green jade and of the wise old Ringding Gelong Lama, who had an Oxford degree and was found to be importing European little girls into the Ahbor Valley...
...these things were duly uncovered, with the help of the kindly wisdom of the Lama and his marvelous chela* so that Ommony found himself at the end with a mission on his shoulders-a mission as strange and solemn as any that man has shouldered. Others of his fellow-adventurers on the secret Middle Way were Dawa Tserin, intricately-wedded hillsman with the mind of a child and the saw-edge knife; Diana, epitome of canine sagacity; Maitraya, bumptious actor...
...seriousness that Stinnes has proposed to convert the Papacy into a company called "St. Peter's Successors, Limited" with which is to be amalgamated "the Russian Greek Orthodox Church and affiliated in the form of a religious syndicate with other religious organizations in- cluding the Tibetan Lama Church, and that he has plans for establishing a paper factory in the Vatican grounds and founding a moving picture city near Rome which shall completely eclipse Los Angeles...