Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another change of attitude seems in the making. The Dalai Lama, sitting in exile in Mussoorie, had been warned to create no embarrassment for India. But he has been increasingly upset by news he has heard from Tibetan refugees making their way to safety in India. They report that thousands of monks have been placed in Red labor camps, that the vast Tibetan monasteries have been left in the hands of a few quislings, and perhaps 80,000 Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese...
...king accepts as likely reports that the Chinese Communists have arrested the Panchen Lama, who had been serving as their puppet ruler in Lhasa: "The Panchen Lama is, after all, a monk, and is now witnessing the Chinese atrocities and therefore might protest." This week the Dalai Lama sent an emissary to New Delhi urging U.N. help for Tibet: "The suffering of my people is beyond description." Nehru now plans to meet with the Dalai Lama this week, the first indication that Nehru is about to swerve from his policy of minimizing the tragedy of Tibet...
Making good on a promise given in 1956, Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama posed for Hungarian Artist Elizabeth Brunner at his refuge in Mussoorie, India-the first time the god-king had permitted an artist to paint his portrait from life since his flight from Lhasa. Last week he saw the result: a likeness showing him seated before a religious scroll, holding a Buddhist prayer book...
Manila announced that Tibet's Dalai Lama, in Indian haven after escaping the Red Chinese invaders of his land, had won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership, a salute for the god-king's role in Tibet's "gallant struggle...
...Americans joined with other anti-Communists in Vienna to undercut the festival in a variety of ways. Free bus trips to view the barbed-wire border of Hungary were organized. Light planes circled over Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally. All week long, Americans slipped anti...