Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...travelogue. The Thomas' also have assiduously gone around to all the local religious festivals. The result is excerpts from religious dances that run ten hours a day for two weeks, as well as shots of Buddhist pilgrims who spend up to thirty days continually prostrating themselves before Lhasa's temples. Many of their subjects, like the Dalai Lama, had never been photographed before, and may never never again, as the Communists have just topped off their invasion with a Peking-to-Lhasa express highway. Probably the most exciting scenes are those in the country's great plains which...
...Lama, sternly pointing to his own signature: "Dalai Lama first. Dalai Lama top man." Last week, after seven months of brainwashing, the question of precedence seemed to have been sufficiently resolved for the Chinese Communists to return both Lamas (now aged 20 and 17) to the sacred cities of Lhasa and Shigatse, where they will share spiritual and temporal power in a kind of heavenly diarchy while Tibet is being organized into "an autonomous region" of "the Chinese motherland...
Beneath triumphal arches, about 350 Communist trucks roared through Tibet into the Forbidden City of Lhasa last week, along two new main roads from Red China. Thirty thousand Tibetans gathered before the legendary Potala palace to greet the trucks, which symbolized their first main road contact with the outside world. Communist authorities paid tribute to the eternal friendship between Red China and Tibet, which the Communists had conquered in 1951, and decorated the workers who had drawn the new highways across the roof of the world...
...allowing the Chinese to take possession of Lhasa [the capital of Tibet], the Prime Minister has practically helped them bring their border down to the Indian border . . . Aggression might well be committed by people who are always in the habit of committing aggression...
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...