Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their figures straight, Seltzer's gazetteers had to explore far beyond the stacks of the major U.S. libraries. They pored over government manuals, foreign industrial reports, newspapers, schoolbooks and road maps. They wrote to mayors, postmasters, and even to the Dalai Lama. They wrote to every provincial government in China. By the time the Reds took over, most of the replies were in-the most complete collection of data on China available to date...
Gainsborough has also lined up an exotic array of 17 teachers. As director of studies he picked German-born Frederic Spiegelberg, Stanford's top expert in Hindu culture and religion. From Japan he got Lama Tokwan Tada, a wizened little man in yellow robes who is the only living Japanese High Lama of Lhasa. From India came Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, the former Prime Minister of Travancore...
...year-old Dalai Lama, who is supposed to exercise temporal power (TIME, May 14), will stay on in Lhasa as his people's nominal ruler. But his rival, the Communist-backed, 13-year-old Panchen Lama, will be allowed to return from exile as spiritual ruler...
...Peking came delegations from both Lama factions, seeking the Red nod. First to arrive were gum-chewing, felt-hatted retainers of the Dalai Lama, who in December had fled his capital of Lhassa before the oncoming Chinese Red army (TIME, Jan. 8). Sitting in exile on India's border, the 16-year-old Lama had decided that it was better to rule under the Chinese Reds than not to rule...
...Panchen Lama, who came to Peking in person from Tsinghai Province, was met enthusiastically at the station by 90 high Red officials, including Premier Chou, three Vice Presidents, 500 civil bigwigs, Peking's Tibetan colony, and a brass band. That night, after a banquet, Chou declared benignly that Mao Tse-tung had "long ago decided to liberate Tibet and help the Tibetan people return to the big family of China." Replied the 14-year-old Panchen Lama: "We firmly support the policy of Chairman...