Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peking broadcast news of a great victory: less than a year after Red Chinese troops first marched into the outlying reaches of Tibet, the theocratic government of Lhasa had surrendered. In a treaty negotiated at Peking, the Tibetans accepted 1) status as an "autonomous" province under the sovereignty of Red China; 2) occupation by a Red Chinese garrison; 3) merger of all Tibetan forces into Red China's army; 4) direction of Tibetan foreign affairs by Red China...
...year-old Dalai Lama, who is supposed to exercise temporal power (TIME, May 14), will stay on in Lhasa as his people's nominal ruler. But his rival, the Communist-backed, 13-year-old Panchen Lama, will be allowed to return from exile as spiritual ruler...
...Thomases had a fairly uneventful trip on their muleback way from India to Lhasa, but in Lhasa things got more exciting. They had the rare enough distinction of being presented to the Dalai Lama, and while the spiritual head of millions of Lamaistic Buddhists had very little to say, the travelers had a good chance to talk with some of his advisers...
...their pay and perquisites. The men were given $6 apiece and a persuasive offer to join the people's army. Most did. The Chinese Reds then entertained the new recruits with a generous demonstration of machine guns, bazookas and other non-Tibetan fireworks. General Nga Beu messaged Lhasa: "It is impossible to defeat the Communists...
...waited helplessly for their conquerors. The Reds, anxious not to disturb their future victims in India, superseded military operations with a thorough propaganda campaign of "friendship and peaceful intentions." By December local agents had raised Mao's five-starred flag over the old Chinese residency in Lhasa...