Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before a Russian dog became the highest form of animal life (see SCIENCE), Sherpa Guide Tensing Norkay, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, trotted out one of a Tibetan breed that formerly contended for the altitude mark. Raised in the high Himalayas, Tensing's homebred personal pet, a Lhasa Apso, was a notable attraction at a London kennel club show...
...name was Jetsun Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso, and when he was only four years old, he became the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1950 the Chinese Communists began their invasion of Tibet, and the 15-year-old ruler fled Lhasa. Eventually the Communists persuaded him to return. Since then the young Dalai Lama and his junior, the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important Incarnation, have lived like highly prized dolls in the hands of Tibet's Communist masters, powerless, yet indispensable because of the religious fealty they command. Last week the Dalai Lama was being feted...
...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...
Last week, however, New Delhi's Statesman confirmed the claims from Tibetan sources. "A wave of rebellion" has swept the provinces of eastern Tibet, reported the Statesman, and fighting is raging only 150 miles from Lhasa, Tibet's capital. 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...
...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...