Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been under Chinese Red attack, much of the news from the roof of the world has come from yak-drivers, muleteers and porters. Their hearsay and gossip, picked up at Kalim-pong, India's gateway to Tibet, became grist for a notable rumor mill (see PRESS) that had Lhasa lost, the Dalai Lama in flight, his army destroyed, his lamaseries in turmoil...
Last week wireless messages from In dia's Agent S. Sinha in Lhasa reported that the Tibetan capital had not yet been captured. No one could say exactly how far off the Communists were; it could be 60 to more than 200 miles. Newsmen tried to check further with the Tibetan mission in Kalimpong. Lhasa's taciturn envoys said that they knew little of what might be happening at home. Told that the Reds were reported less than 100 miles from his country's capital, Finance Minister Trepon Shakabja, head of the mission, blandly replied: "Well...
...obstacles than Tibet's snow-capped mountains. For one thing, Tibet would let no foreign newsmen in. For another, no news was coming out: the last radio link with Tibet's capital was cut two weeks ago when the wireless operated by India's mission in Lhasa went silent...
...Peking for negotiations with the Chinese Reds. The delegation proved inscrutable, uncommunicative and apparently as uninformed as the newsmen themselves. But from Kalimpong the correspondents began wiring dispatches full of details of battle, and placing the invaders everywhere from 250 miles to 50 miles from Lhasa...
...Lhasa's golden-roofed lamaseries, the Buddhist theocrats who have ruled Tibet's 3,000,000 people spun their prayerwheels, consulted ancient oracles, conferred. For the non-Communist world, the sole source of news from the capital was the radio transmitter of the Indian agent stationed there. For seven days it was silent, and the rumor rose that a pro-appeasement lamasery revolution had unseated the young (16) Dalai Lama. Then the wireless spoke again. "Extreme worry," it reported, gripped the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama and his Regent, Takta Rimpoche, must soon choose one of three courses: flight...