Word: lhasa
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...Tibet still lacked living gods, was becoming increasingly embarrassed at having in its midst one god who was extremely dead. From Jyekundo, where the Panchen Lama died, a retinue of 1,000 lamas, Chinese soldiers and relations of the Buddha set out last winter to take his body to Lhasa, to bury it with proper ritual. Unable or unwilling to embalm it, they wrapped it, in a sitting position, in cloths...
...meantime he had explored the Amazon, dug up Inca remains in Peru, penetrated the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet...
This adventure he related in a book, To Lhasa in Disguise. With a few Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones...
...souls of Tibetans, while the Dalai Lama, an older and wilier man, conducted its temporal affairs. The ''Buddha of Mercy" proved to be more sinister than merciful. From his intrigues the Panchen Lama fled in 1924, leaving him in full sway in his fortress-palace in Lhasa until his death four years ago (TIME...
...weather after one member, Francis Sydney Smythe, fought up to 1,000 ft. from the top. This year's party, toughened alpinists all, includes Climber Smythe and two others who have had a taste of Everest. Permission for the climb was obtained from the Tibetan Government, but Lhasa monks muttered predictions that the gods of holy Everest would add to the toll of 14 lives taken on previous attempts...