Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last October 3,000 mountaineer soldiers, well-equipped by Tibetan standards with castoff British battle gear, held the vital frontier fortress of Chamdo, 370 miles east of Tibet's capital, Lhasa. They were preparing for an orthodox daylight attack by the invading Red Chinese...
Night Into Day. Commanding General Nga Beu, a man of action, galloped away from the enemy to warn Lhasa of the danger, leaving his men behind. Within a few hours most of his troops, their weapons scattered, were pounding down the road after him. None of them had fired a shot. Neither had the Chinese...
News of the December defeat in Korea swept like a winter blizzard through Tibet's remote mountain passes, where another Red Chinese army is invading. Communist prestige soared. Tibet's boy ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, last fortnight left his capital, Lhasa, on what the Indian government representative in Tibet described as "an official tour." Indian newspapers reported that the Lama was planning to set up a new seat of government at Yatung, a town in the Chumbi valley just across the Himalayan divide separating Tibet from the Indian-protected state of Sikkim...
...headed south the Chinese were still some 300 miles from Lhasa. Reports from the Tibetan border citadel of Cham-do, which the Chinese captured on Oct. 19, said party commissars were giving captured Tibetan troops a thorough Communist indoctrination, 100 sangs ($5) each, and sending them back to their homes...
...streets, panting to explore Tibet and its particular brand of Buddhism, but lacking permission to get in. Last week, as they have since the Chinese Reds invaded Tibet in October, Kalimpongians waited breathlessly, along with rumormongering newsmen (TIME, Nov. 20), to welcome the Dalai Lama should he flee from Lhasa into their midst, as his predecessor did in 1910. The town had one big worry. If he comes, will the Tibetan God-King bring enough sheets? In 1910 frenzied devotees kept ripping the exalted exile's linen to bits to preserve as sacred objects, along with the dust from...