Word: lhasa
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...Dalai Lama ordered an automobile and a Chinese chauffeur. To get it from Darjeeling to Lhasa, corps of coolies, 30 strong, were stationed along the mountain passes, where no roads exist, to carry the car when it could not be driven. Now other Tibetans can buy "devil wagons" without sacrilege...
Again last week the gutters of the Himalayas ran news. Sometime ago- goodness knew when-and for some reason or other-goodness knew what-an army of 60,000 sturdy soldiers marched from Nepal and were last week ominously approaching Lhasa, famed "Forbidden City," capital of that remote pope the Grand Dalai Lama of Tibet...
...Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...
...geographical position of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, long forbidden ground to Europeans, was determined by the mathematical process of triangulation after considerable work in which Sir Francis was prominent...
...convenience sake the Panchen Lama might be called the "Buddhist Pope," and the Dalai Lama the temporal pontiff of Tibet. Just at present these two most holy persons are at outs, the Sovereign Dalai Lama holding his court at Lhasa, Tibetan capital, and the Panchen Lama roving about war-torn China with the immunity and pomp of a walking deity. In honor of this little man on whom rests the duty of maintaining Buddhist doctrines pure, an invigorating banquet was tendered by Governor-General Chang at which hot tiger's blood was drunk...