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...bespectacled Dalai Lama, 21, nominal ruler of Red-ruled Tibet, was permitted to venture outside the Bamboo Curtain for the first time since the Chinese Communists forced Marxian enlightenment upon his Himalayan country five years ago. In journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...
...months word has been filtering over the Himalayas that Tibet's Red Chinese conquerors are running into increasing trouble−armed revolts, underground opposition, widespread unrest. Recently a group of exiled Tibetans, led by the Da'ai Lama's brother, declared in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru that the Chinese had bombed the provincial capital of Litang and that Tibetans "had risen in aid of their fellow countrymen." The Indian press was skeptical of the claims and to a man ignored the letter; Indians are careful not to borrow trouble with their...
...Both Chinese troops and Tibetan rebels have suffered heavy casualties. Litang has been bombed and several monasteries razed. In the north, fierce, xenophobic Khamba tribesmen are attacking Chinese convoys en route to Lhasa. The Chinese Reds, alarmed by the extent of the uprising, have appealed to the captive Dalai Lama to use his prestige to stop the fighting...
...then serenity-in some translations called sluggishness-reasserts itself: the High Lama prates mellowly of Shangri-La's past, Dennis King stands around expertly at a loss, and the desire for controlled frenzy mounts...
...hold Tibet firmly," goes an old Tibetan saying, "the conqueror must win Potala's top floor." Potala is the 500-ft.-high, 1,400-room Lhasa stronghold of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's powerful temporal ruler, and the top floor is the Lama's private residence. Since Red China "liberated" Tibet in 1951, hundreds of Chinese officials have been popping in and out of Potala's top floor, wooing the 21-year-old Dalai Lama with flattery and gifts (among them: ten autos, a direct phone to Peking), and isolating him from his own countrymen...