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When Death came to Tibet's potent Grand Dalai Lama, his exiled rival the Panchen Lama promptly began casting about China for funds to stage a Tibetan coup (TIME, Jan. 22). Of late Nanking has buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have...
...recently flew from Nanking to Peiping," said His Holiness. "After that experience I would rather spend many months going overland to Lhasa than attempt to go by air." On his one & only flight, according to the airplane's crew, His Holiness the Panchen Lama was "grievously and continuously air sick." Skeptics doubted last week whether the Panchen Lama was seriously starting for Tibet, expected him to settle down in Inner Mongolia with the funds he has collected...
During his stay in China the devout were shocked to learn that His Holiness is no ascetic. Though Tibetan Lamas consider it virtuous to go hungry and a sin to eat flesh or fish, the Panchen Lama feasted regularly in Nanking on chicken, beef, mutton and those expensive Chinese delicacies, sharks' fins and hot sea slugs...
...trigonometry in 1841. At that time, and for decades thereafter, Tibet was almost as remote from the world as Mars, and to this day its Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not until 1920 was permission for a climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time on a heart-breaking approach to the saddle before discovering the more feasible...
...flyers who were the first to look down on the sacred mountain were careful to keep clear of Tibet, but the holy men in Lhasa fumed at the desecration. Last winter the gods of Everest seemed angry. The Dalai Lama died. A catastrophic earthquake shook North India, killing thousands. When news of Everest's latest victim reached Lhasa last week, there was grim and pious chuckling...