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Dilowa isn't physically so old, godson David Lattimore '52 explained. But his soul is the 18th reincarnation of an early saint named Dilowa. When the original holy man died, local Lama leaders picked the first male born in the area as the obvious reincarnation. The process has continued over since, subject to political ocrruption of the choosing authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1100 Year Old Lama Visits College | 2/25/1950 | See Source »

Dilowa speaks to his godson David in a combination of Chinese and sign language. They make remarkably few mistakes, but neither do they any much. Lattimore was able to get a decision from the Lama as to whether he should be called Dilowa Gegen or Dilowa Hutukhtu in this story: The Mongolian averred that, while Hutukhtu also denotes part of his political position, Gegen is the more specific name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1100 Year Old Lama Visits College | 2/25/1950 | See Source »

Dilowa stayed with Lattimore in Adams House yesterday. When asked how she let the Lama in without a necktie, the checker in the Adams House dining hall emphasized the need to make exceptions, sometimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1100 Year Old Lama Visits College | 2/25/1950 | See Source »

...Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...What the Lama Brought. Insubsequent issues, Editor Grosvenor has stretched his romantic, unscientific definition of geography to cover everything under (and above) the sun. To the Geographic, geography means kites and cats, ostriches and insanity, the Bagdad market and the Berlin airlift, eruptions of volcanoes, bathyspheres and the stratosphere, fishing, fine arts and the sex life of savages. Peripatetic, insatiably curious Gilbert Grosvenor has written 300 articles and taken 200 of the photographs. He was the first U.S. editor to use natural color photographs (a 24-page spread on China and Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Geography for Everyman | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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