Word: lhasa
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...Khambas, swinging ancient swords on horseback, taking potshots with captured Red rifles and pushing boulders down the mountain sides onto Chinese truck convoys have gained control of a 200-square-mile area in eastern Tibet-most of the basin of the Brahmaputra River south of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. So far, they appear to be fighting more for themselves than in the name of the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, who with Red consent has managed to stay on his lacquered throne as Tibet's titular ruler...
...Third Eye readers were fans. Among the dissidents were British Author Marco Pallis, whose Peaks and Lamas was a bestselling account of his Tibetan mountain climbing in the 1930s, and Diplomat Hugh Richardson, who had served as chief of the British mission in Lhasa for eight years before and after World War II. They compiled lists of Rampa inaccuracies, e.g., mention of gold candlesticks, unknown in Tibet; description of Rampa's mother wearing a single earring, a privilege restricted to male officials of a certain rank. Joining forces with Austrian Author Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet), Pallis...
Shortly before a Russian dog became the highest form of animal life (see SCIENCE), Sherpa Guide Tensing Norkay, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, trotted out one of a Tibetan breed that formerly contended for the altitude mark. Raised in the high Himalayas, Tensing's homebred personal pet, a Lhasa Apso, was a notable attraction at a London kennel club show...
...name was Jetsun Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso, and when he was only four years old, he became the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1950 the Chinese Communists began their invasion of Tibet, and the 15-year-old ruler fled Lhasa. Eventually the Communists persuaded him to return. Since then the young Dalai Lama and his junior, the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important Incarnation, have lived like highly prized dolls in the hands of Tibet's Communist masters, powerless, yet indispensable because of the religious fealty they command. Last week the Dalai Lama was being feted...
...bespectacled Dalai Lama, 21, nominal ruler of Red-ruled Tibet, was permitted to venture outside the Bamboo Curtain for the first time since the Chinese Communists forced Marxian enlightenment upon his Himalayan country five years ago. In journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...