Word: lamas
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...foot or wheel had touched the ground, the well-drilled Japanese Foreign Office had turned its attention to the campaign's next objective, Thailand (whose biggest politico, Major General Phya Bahol-pronounced Peeya B'hoon-last month hastily took the non-political yellow robe of a lama, entered a monastery). It looked, said the Foreign Office's Tokyo newspaper, as though Thailand would need the strong helping hand of an outside country to keep the British from disrupting "the good relationship that has developed between Japan and Thailand...
...supposedly attended his birth three years ago. Finally they were satisfied that he was indeed the reincarnation of a round-bellied little man who had died shortly before the youngster was born. And last week they told the world that the little boy is the Panchen or Tashi Lama, Buddha of Boundless Light and spiritual ruler of 10,000,000 rancid Tibetans and Mongolians...
...since 1924 has Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough...
...promote home industry, Italian cinemakers held a contest in Rome to find another (Italian) Shirley Temple. With no more trouble than Lamas have in discovering a new Dalai Lama, they found her: chubby Germana Calderini, aged seven...
...butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will receive homage from the high lamas. After that, everyone will banquet. The Dalai Lama will undoubtedly exhibit great dignity during these ceremonies. As child lamas usually do, for some reason, he impressed everyone with his intelligence and composure when he first...