Word: sera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enormous, fortresslike Potala, and could hear the palace gates close harshly and the ringing shouts of the watchmen as they marched through the long, twisting corridors. Without playmates or attending parents, the Dalai Lama matured early, and at 14 he visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility of mind would depend the future balance of power. He would not be deposed should he fail the examination, but he could be turned into a puppet-a Living Buddha...
...Dalai Lama was still too young to govern, and his state was run for him by regents. Two of them quarreled, and Lhasa was rocked by a brief civil war in 1947, in which howitzers were used to end the defiance of the monks of Sera lamasery. More important to Tibet and the Dalai Lama was another civil war: that in China. As Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were driven from the mainland to Formosa, it was inevitable that the Reds would soon attempt to assert the Chinese suzerainty that had been largely ineffectual for nearly 40 years...
...Pope John XXIII rode in a long black Cadillac, and with him rode two of his cardinals-Clemente Cardinal Micara, Vicar General of Rome, and France's bearded Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the Sacred College. Commented Rome's Cornere Delia Sera: "This is a highly significant particular . . . because John wishes thereby to make a public demonstration of the fact that he means to give the utmost prestige to the College of Cardinals, restoring to it its full powers...
...instead of 13 cardinals, and the overall Italian representation in the College of Cardinals is now up from 17 to 29-not, Vaticaners feel, with a view to restoring the traditional Italian majority, but to revive Italian pride in the "senate of the church." Noted Corriere Delia Sera: "Even though the number of non-Italians is still preponderant, at least we are no longer the miserable one-third that we were reduced to during the previous pontificate...
...strategy: not to avoid arrest but to welcome the chance to overcrowd the jails. Morning after morning, they would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies on their backs, and head for the grimy brick building that houses the pass office. There they would chant, "Sera sa motho ke pasa [The pass is the enemy of man]," and sometimes they would hurl an insult: "Let the Prime Minister give his own wife a pass if he wants them...