Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Globe-trotting Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas flew back home from Asia 15 Ibs. lighter than he went in. Though on crutches with the thigh fracture he suffered when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...
...turn-of-the-century Geographic was a stodgy scientific journal, written with old-fashioned portentousness, and floundering in debt. Grosvenor stuck to the pattern for six years. One day in 1905, a packet of photographs from Tibet landed on his desk. Grosvenor was fascinated by the rugged Tibetan scenery and the Dalai Lama's palace. On an impulse, he spread the pictures across eleven pages. The issue created a sensation: almost by accident, Grosvenor had discovered how to make geography popular...
...plane to the dropoff points for distribution to readers like India's Pandit Nehru and Industrialists N. H. Tata and G. D. Birla; to Shanghai Mayor K. C. Wu, Siam Premier Phibun Songgram, Oilman B. C. Jones in Dili, Portuguese Timor, 23 subscribers in Zamboanga, one in Tibet; to William Eu (Singapore), Jan de Groot (Batavia), and thousands of other plain citizens...
MONASTERY SECRETS . . . the Forbidden Knowledge of Tibet . . . Like the streams that trickle from the Himalayan heights to the plateau below, the great truths of these brotherhoods have descended through the ages...
...Buddhism as the national religion, confiscated the lamasery lands. The Dilowa Hutukhtu withdrew first to Inner Mongolia, then to North China, finally (during the Japanese war) to Chungking. Cut off from his monasteries and obliged to live on a stipend from the Chinese government, he dreamed of retiring to Tibet. But last week, the long-wandering Dilowa Hutukhtu had changed his place of exile once again. He became a resident of Baltimore, U.S.A...