Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down through the snow-swept passes of Tibet last week drifted reports that yellow-hatted-monks had picked the 14th Dalai Lama, reincarnation of Buddha and successor to the late Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho, temporal ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans (TIME, Jan. 1). After weighty examination of sacred books and relics, astrological signs and portents, the monks had come upon a babe in the outskirts of Lhasa, who had been born the night the old Dalai Lama died. The infant into whose body the spirit of the Dalai Lama had supposedly passed was to be left with...
Meanwhile in China the Panchen Lama, spiritual ruler of Tibet who was ousted in 1924, planned to go to Nanking this week for the meeting of the Kuomintang party and discuss possibilities of getting back his old post...
...body into which the spirit of the Dalai Lama supposedly passed...
...wispy sickle moon slid through the heavens over Peiping one night last week, eclipsed the planets Saturn and Venus, left them glowing balefully red. To some yellow-robed Buddhist monks conducting sombre ritual in Peiping's ancient, dilapidated Lama Temple, the eclipse was an ominous portent. They twirled their prayer-wheels uneasily, muttering the potent Buddhist charm: Om mani padme hum ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged...
Died. Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai-Wang-Chu-Chueh- Le-Lang-Chieh. the Dalai Lama, 13th reincarnation of Buddha, ruler of Tibet; in Lhasa...