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...William Montgomery McGovern, distinguished British orientalist and explorer will lecture in the Living Room of the Harvard Union next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the address will be "To Lhasa in Disguise", and will be illustrated with pictures taken with great difficulty by the explorer on his epoch-making expedition to Tibet's capitol...
...most versatile of living English scientists, Dr. McGovern is not only famous for important Amazonian explorations, but is still more renowned as the first white man to penetrate into Lhasa, the "Forbidden City" of Tibet. As a lecturer he stood in the front ranks in the Oxford Union, and has addressed the leading British societies...
Numerous scientific works on many different subjects have been published by this savent. Among them are: "Modern Japan, Its Political, Military, and Industrial Organization," "Colloquial Japanese"; "Manual of Buddhist Philosophy"; and "To Lhasa in Disguise." The story of the South American expedition will be published in the near future...
...Grand Lama of Tibet, most fundamental of Fundamentalists, has bowed to Science. His mystery palace, the Potala, at Lhasa, now flashes with electricity, according to epochal word just received. Age after age, the grand Lama's seclusion has been a byword to awe. Lhasa, the Forbidden City-what European had seen it? A few 18th Century Capuchin friars; persistent but mostly unsuccessful 19th Century explorers. Not until 1904, under armed expedition of Col. Francis E. Younghusband, was there any adequate description. Since then things have moved faster in the Buddhist Mecca...
Last week a smallish, modest man, with shaven head, oval, slightly pock-marked face, long, pointed, waxed mustaches, promenaded from his Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...