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...when he was only four years old, he became the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1950 the Chinese Communists began their invasion of Tibet, and the 15-year-old ruler fled Lhasa. Eventually the Communists persuaded him to return. Since then the young Dalai Lama and his junior, the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important Incarnation, have lived like highly prized dolls in the hands of Tibet's Communist masters, powerless, yet indispensable because of the religious fealty they command. Last week the Dalai Lama was being feted in India, having been allowed for the first time...
Fear v. Love. Accompanied by his mother, two officials known as the Ministers of Tea and Butter, and the Panchen Lama, the young god-king proceeded across India, usually mounted on a pony-although once he rode an elephant together with Prime Minister Nehru. He was surrounded by a whirl of waving yellow prayer flags, burning incense and flower petals. Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims prostrated themselves before him. and when they could not reach his gown, they touched the hoofs of his pony. Dignified and smiling, his crew cut and glasses making him look (as one American put it) like...
...journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...
...gifts (among them: ten autos, a direct phone to Peking), and isolating him from his own countrymen. But despite his occasional public concurrences in their party line, they still do not trust him, remembering his flight to India when Red China marched into Tibet. The 18-year-old Panchen Lama, Tibet's spiritual ruler, is more acquiescent, and the Red Chinese have tried to bolster his status at the expense of the Dalai Lama...
...Nehru recently invited both Lamas to visit New Delhi in May to help celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of Buddha's birth. Last week Nehru ruefully announced that the Lamas could not come. "India in May," Red China had replied, "will be too hot for the Dalai and Panchen Lamas." Besides, the two young rulers were "busy implementing Tibet's constitutional reforms." The Chinese indicated, however, that the Lamas would shortly be allowed to make a trip to cool, cool Moscow, where requests for help can safely be disregarded...