Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Herter took over at a time when the world looked to the U.S. for direction in the compounded crises of Berlin, Tibet, Iraq, and at a time of a rising tide of weariness with cold war that might lead the Communists to miscalculate the free world's resolution. He had no need to, and probably would not, follow the precise pattern of Dulles policies; but as long as there was a cold war to fight, he could take a guideline from the London Observer's appraisal of Foster Dulles: "We have come to appreciate how enormously important...
...outpost called Foothills on the border of Assam state and the North-East Frontier Agency. A light drizzle fell on a detail of the small-statured soldiers of the Assam Rifles. A knot of Indian government officials shifted position in the muddy street as they awaited the appearance of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had now been more than a month on the trail-14 days in making his escape from the pursuing Red Chinese in Tibet (TIME, April 20), and a more leisurely 18 days of pushing through the Himalayan jungles of India's northeast frontier...
...station wagon stepped the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, God-King of Tibet, wearing a beatific smile but sniffling slightly from a head cold. His eyes were bright and warm behind orange-rimmed glasses, and he wore the simple russet gown of a high lama, with no special marks of rank. Surrounded by his mother, brother and sister and by Cabinet ministers and officials, the Dalai Lama smiled and nodded as he moved slowly by the news photographers...
TOKYO, April 20--Red China Monday branded as lies the Dalai Lama's statement denouncing Communist rule in Tibet...
Tibetan Buddhism, called Lamaism, is a variant of Mahayana, basing a large part of its practice on the revelatory Tantric texts. It absorbed much of the dark, animistic Bon Po religion of primitive Tibet and swarms with demons and fiercely copulating gods. The world is haunted by such specters as the ro-langs, or standing dead. They walk with their eyes closed, never change direction, and their touch is fatal to human beings. There are mountain demons who suck the life from unwary travelers, demons who cause hailstorms and earthquakes and eclipses. The Tibetan Buddhist contemplates an intricate pantheon, from...