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When Death came to Tibet's potent Grand Dalai Lama, his exiled rival the Panchen Lama promptly began casting about China for funds to stage a Tibetan coup (TIME, Jan. 22). Of late Nanking has buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have...
...recently flew from Nanking to Peiping," said His Holiness. "After that experience I would rather spend many months going overland to Lhasa than attempt to go by air." On his one & only flight, according to the airplane's crew, His Holiness the Panchen Lama was "grievously and continuously air sick." Skeptics doubted last week whether the Panchen Lama was seriously starting for Tibet, expected him to settle down in Inner Mongolia with the funds he has collected...
...Hongkong arrived 50 Tibetan Lamas, on their way to Nanking bearing gifts and good news to the pious little Panchen Lama who was ousted in 1924 as Tibet's spiritual ruler. The paunchy Panchen Lama took hope of resuming his old position last December when Death came to Tibet's temporal ruler, the devious Dalai Lama (TIME, Jan. 1, et seq.). He dispatched the 50 Lamas to Lhasa to feel out the situation. Last week they reported all was well. Said the Ahchien Lama, leader of the party: "The people of Tibet are eager for his return...
Meanwhile in China the Panchen Lama, spiritual ruler of Tibet who was ousted in 1924, planned to go to Nanking this week for the meeting of the Kuomintang party and discuss possibilities of getting back his old post...
...Lamaism acquired a theocratic and infallible rule, divided between two men who both were Buddhas incarnate. One was the mighty Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet, master of the Potala fortress, incarnation of the ancestor of all Tibetans, the "Buddha of Mercy." The other was the spiritual ruler, the Panchen Lama, resident at Tashilunpo Monastery eight days distant by caravan, the 'Buddha of Boundless Light." The succession of the Panchen and Dalai Lamas was determined by the Tibetan hierarchy. Upon the death of either Lama his spirit immediately found residence in the body of some small Tibetan moppet...