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...only enlivenment was the appearance of the 19-year-old Dalai Lama, escorted out of Tibet by a Red general three weeks ago as thousands of his subjects wept and prostrated themselves. His presence was quite a coup: the Dalai Lama is a living God to his own people. Several years ago. uncertain of the Dalai Lama's loyalty, the Communists began to groom the exiled Panchen Lama as a rival. He is the spiritual leader of Lamaism, as the Dalai is the temporal head. Last week both the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama...
...turned the Nyang Chu River into a foaming cataract. Lake Takri Tsoma overflowed and a wall of water swept into Shigatse (altitude: 12,800 ft.). flooding shrines and drowning sacred statues. The flood undermined the ancient Palace of the Western Paradise, official residence of the 16-year-old Panchen Lama, whom 3,000,000 Tibetans accept as a spiritual reincarnation of the Buddha of Boundless Light. Reports reaching West Bengal last week reported that the palace collapsed, crushing scores of Buddhist monks in a welter of prayer wheels, holy vessels and ornamented battlements. One Red Chinese barracks, teeming with...
From Tibet came word that the Dalai Lama, 19, whose country was grabbed by China's Communists in 1951, had departed his capital city of Lhasa to journey a long, sad way to Peking, where his secular masters will presumably try to enlighten the priest-king about the joys of cooperation with their regime. His brainwashing is expected to require from six to ten months...
...Lhasa with its gold-roofed Potala ("Palace of the Gods"), the Dalai Lama's magnificent winter residence. Lhasa itself at times looks less like a holy place than a sort of religious slum. The poorly clothed priests are herded in their hopelessly overcrowded cloisters (one of which has 10,000 inmates), and the camera in one distasteful sequence watches them being fed as cattle are, by the scoop. The scene enforces the impression of a country where -according to the Thomas' narration-so many men become priests that few are left to be fathers...
There are, however, some pleasanter pictures of the beings who dwell in this lost country. The Dalai Lama, aged 16 when this film was made, looks pretty much like any other teen-ager dressed up for a masquerade. The common people seem better than their betters. As they stir their hot-buttered tea or plow the skyey pastures with their dolorous yaks, or swarm to Lhasa for their pageants, their faces are warm with the comfortable joy of creatures at home in their world...