Word: panchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panchen Lama,* Buddha of Boundless Light for 10,000,000 Tibetans and Mongolians, had quite a time at his enthronement. Because the affair took place at Kum Bum Lamasery in remote Hwangyuan, China-which is practically out of this world-it took nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S. Present at the enthronement was the Rev. Victor Guy Plymire, a longtime American missionary. After patiently waiting through eight hours of ceremony and gift-giving (the presents ranged from precious silver ornaments to a sheep stomach filled with butter), Missionary Plymire was finally permitted to take...
...Civil War, reached a climax battle 20 years ago (47 killed, 100 wounded). *At the bottom of the scroll, the President hedged: "Valid if said Watson is a full-blooded Seminole Indian. I think he is." *Not to be confused with the Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet. The Panchen Lama is Tibet's spiritual ruler...
...portents which had supposedly attended his birth three years ago. Finally they were satisfied that he was indeed the reincarnation of a round-bellied little man who had died shortly before the youngster was born. And last week they told the world that the little boy is the Panchen or Tashi Lama, Buddha of Boundless Light and spiritual ruler of 10,000,000 rancid Tibetans and Mongolians...
...since 1924 has Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough...
...world's last theocracies: its culture centres about its religion, Lamaism, a form of Buddhism which was brought up from India through the Himalayan passes in the 7th Century. This hierarchical faith, with its priests, abbots, lamas (monks), hutukhtus ("Living Buddhas"), is headed by two infallible incarnations-the Panchen Lama, a spiritual teacher or "Buddha of Boundless Light," and the Dalai Lama, a temporal sovereign, the "Buddha of Mercy...