Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugees who were flown in to Zurich two months ago by chartered plane. Their Unterwasser home has an elevation of 3,000 ft., only about one-fourth that of Tibet, but Switzerland lies 15° north of their Asian homeland and the climatic conditions are much the same. Explains Lama Wangyal about the extraordinary transplant: "The mountains make us happy. We do not have forests, and our houses are built of stone, not wood. But this is also a country of snow, cheese and milk...
Like their God-King, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans left their homes to escape brutal Red Chinese repression after the failure of the 1959 revolt. They were brought to Switzerland by ten Swiss calling themselves Friends of Tibet, and including members of a 1953 Himalayan mountain-climbing expedition, Asia scholars, authors and businessmen. The intense, quiet-mannered Tibetan moppets instantly charmed the Swiss with their small, deft hands and disarming smiles. The adults are faring equally well. In Unterwasser, a Red Cross social worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes...
Marriage Revealed. Thubten Jigme Norbu, 38, articulate eldest brother of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who came to the U.S. in 1951, is now working with University of Washington scholars on a cultural research project on Tibet; and Kunchok Sakyapa, 16, a Seattle junior high school student and member of a family ennobled by Kublai Khan in the 13th century, who escaped from Tibet in 1959, one week after the Dalai Lama; both for the first time; in Bothell, Wash., April...
...Poland, according to one old superstition, when a man discovers a white spot underneath the nail of the little finger, left hand, he knows he's had it. When death is near, most societies require the presence of close relatives and a religious functionary. In Tibet, a lama must be there to pluck a hair of the dying man's head so that the soul can escape through the root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy man) wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill...
...this policy, the Chinese have ruthlessly "killed religious figures, because their religious belief and practice was an encouragement and example to others. They also have forcibly transferred large numbers of Tibetan children to a Chinese materialist environment in order to prevent them from having a religious upbringing." The Dalai Lama told the commissioners that his information showed that more than 10,000 Tibetan children, some as young as age six, had been torn away from their parents, given numbers and sent to China...