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From the gilded rooftop of Lhasa's Potala Palace, heralds blew 14-foot-long copper trumpets. Below, in the building's ornate Assembly Hall, a bright-eyed, 16-year-old boy sat on a high throne, about which clustered Tibet's most powerful lamas, abbots and monks. They had come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted...
...preparing for the worst. They closed the regency of septuagenarian Takta Rimpoche, abbot of Tiger Rock Monastery. They bolstered the spiritual position of the Dalai Lama should he be forced to leave Lhasa for exile abroad and should the Communists try to install a rival on his throne...
...murder her paramour. Obligingly, Jung Bahadur helped her kill 55 nobles and 500 lesser folk. The Queen was so pleased that she made Jung Bahadur Prime Minister. He knew what to do next. Two months later he exiled the King and Queen, and put their minor son on the throne at Kathmandu...
Special Delivery. The present King, Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, came to the throne in.ign when he was five. Little is known of him except that he is said to be able to ride two horses at the same time, one foot on each. Also, he married two sisters on the same...
Back in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Rana put null grandson, Gyanendra, aged 3, on Nepal's throne. Rebellion against this act broke out here & there, but Rana's government claimed it had things under control...