Word: potala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific for all ills...
...Kokonor Kid" has already been put to learning the mantras and tantras-Buddhist charms, incantations and prayers-which will fill his days as long as he lives. This week in the Potala, lavish with gold and lacquer and stinking with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will...