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...Chinese would now find themselves deceived. Russia, using Communism-"the most subtle instrument of Soviet foreign policy . . . ever devised"-is the new imperialist in Asia. Already Soviet Russia was proving the point in China by absorbing the northern "provinces" of Outer Mongolia, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Sinkiang. "I should like to suggest," said Acheson, "that this fact ... is the single most significant, most important fact in the relation of any foreign power with Asia...
After their head lama died in 1883, the monks of the Buddhist lamasery of Naribanchin Sume in Outer Mongolia went to work at once. Their most urgent task, after the ceremonies of death were carried out, was to find his successor, a hutukhtu ("Living Buddha...
...Tibetan (the Latin of Buddhism), the scriptures, and the procedures of his new office. As the 19th successive reincarnation of 6th Century Buddhist Saint Dilowa, they gave him that name. When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia...
Then, in 1931, the routine was suddenly shattered. The "autonomous" government of Outer Mongolia, which was coming more & more under Soviet influence, outlawed Buddhism as the national religion, confiscated the lamasery lands. The Dilowa Hutukhtu withdrew first to Inner Mongolia, then to North China, finally (during the Japanese war) to Chungking. Cut off from his monasteries and obliged to live on a stipend from the Chinese government, he dreamed of retiring to Tibet. But last week, the long-wandering Dilowa Hutukhtu had changed his place of exile once again. He became a resident of Baltimore, U.S.A...
Lattimore hopes the hutukhtu's presence will be "the point of departure" for expanded courses on Mongolia. If all goes well, the hutukhtu may well settle down for a while, to resume in Baltimore the private life of study and prayer he knew at Naribanchin Sume...