Word: lhasa
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...longer tied down by the bitter weather and snow-clogged roads, forced to submit to the fierce hit-and-run raids of the rebellious Khamba tribesmen (TIME, March 16). Now he got word that 25,000 Khambas were concentrated only 40 miles north of the capital city of Lhasa. The tribesmen were supported by 8,000 Buddhist monks who, after the Reds looted their monasteries, traded prayer wheels for guns...
Last week the irritated Red commander sent another message to the Dalai Lama, peremptorily ordering him to report alone, even without his senior abbots, to Red headquarters in Lhasa. As word spread among the 55,000 inhabitants of the city, angry Tibetans thronged around the towering, 40-ft. Potala (Winter Palace), so that the Dalai Lama could not leave it, even if he wished to. When the Dalai Lama's mother heard the news, she burst into tears, and a crowd of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general, begging help for the Dalai Lama. Some Lhasans broke...
...DELHI, India, March 24--Peace was restored in Lhasa, the two-mile high capital of Tibet. Amid indications that Red China's troops had stemmed the weekend revolt, there was speculation that guerrilla warfare might persist in the countryside...
Roundabout advice to Tibetans in Kalimpong, an Indian trading center on Tibet's frontier, said Lhasa was quiet, though tense. One unverified report said 300 Red troops and 50 to 60 Tibetans were killed. The battle was set off Friday by Tibetan fears that the Communist overlords planned to kidnap the Dalai Lama, the 23-year-old king called "the living Buddha...
...DELHI, India, March 22--Fires were reported seen today in two Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, possibly indicating that Chinese Communist forces had shelled or bombed them in an effort to put down a large-scale rebellion...