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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...
...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...
From the gilded rooftop of Lhasa's Potala Palace, heralds blew 14-foot-long copper trumpets. Below, in the building's ornate Assembly Hall, a bright-eyed, 16-year-old boy sat on a high throne, about which clustered Tibet's most powerful lamas, abbots and monks. They had come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted...
...emergency investiture. Traditionally, the Dalai Lama waits for his 18th birthday before formally assuming power. By staging the ceremony two years ahead of schedule, Lhasa's theocrats seemed to be preparing for the worst. They closed the regency of septuagenarian Takta Rimpoche, abbot of Tiger Rock Monastery. They bolstered the spiritual position of the Dalai Lama should he be forced to leave Lhasa for exile abroad and should the Communists try to install a rival on his throne...
...first, no one would sponsor Lhasa's case. Then, to everyone's surprise and embarrassment, El Salvador's Dr. Hector David Castro insisted on an Assembly debate and condemnation of Red China's "unprovoked aggression." What, if anything, the U.N. would do for an independent Tibet remained to be seen...