Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promote home industry, Italian cinemakers held a contest in Rome to find another (Italian) Shirley Temple. With no more trouble than Lamas have in discovering a new Dalai Lama, they found her: chubby Germana Calderini, aged seven...
British and Chinese power in Lhasa seemed amicably divided last week, as the city prepared for the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama. In Tibet had arrived a chubby, button-eyed, four-and-a-half-year-old boy, nicknamed by reporters "the Kokonor Kid" (after his birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing...
British Agent Gould, meanwhile, had concentrated his attention on the man who will actually rule Tibet until the new Dalai Lama reaches 18 (if he reaches it-Dalai Lamas often die of aconite in their buttered tea). Tibet's Regent, shy, ugly, runty, jug-eared Thup Ten Jampel Yishey Gyantsen, lives in one of Lhasa's best palaces, raises European flowers in his garden. To him, Agent Gould gave many presents from India's Viceroy Lord Linlithgow-a silver tea service, rifles, revolvers, a gramophone, a thermos flask, a signed photograph. Likewise, Agent Gould and his staff...
Variously called Lama Tanchu, or Lama Dhondup, or Ehrlingh ("Divine Child"), the new Dalai Lama last fortnight took his official name: Jampel Ngag-Wang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyamtso, deriving from the names of earlier Dalai Lamas and meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific...
...butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will receive homage from the high lamas. After that, everyone will banquet. The Dalai Lama will undoubtedly exhibit great dignity during these ceremonies. As child lamas usually do, for some reason, he impressed everyone with his intelligence and composure when he first...