Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kashmir, a mountainous never-never land that lies jammed in between China, Tibet and Afghanistan, was a prize which both India and Pakistan had been eying greedily ever since the British left India. As a princely state, it was entitled to choose which new nation it would join. Kashmir's Hindu maharaja, panicked by an invasion of tough Pathan Moslem tribesmen from northwest Pakistan, chose India-despite the fact that 77% of his subjects were Moslems.* There followed a 14-month war in which the Indian army badly mauled both the Pathans and the Pakistani regulars who had come...
...will take birth again," said the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet. In 1933 he died, and the oracles and seers began their search for the new body of this living Buddha, an Incarnation of the Tibetan god Chen-re-zi. The first sign came while the body of the dead Dalai Lama still sat in state; its head, which had been turned traditionally toward the south, mysteriously turned east. To the seers this was an indication that the new Dalai Lama must be looked for in the east. In retrospect, they might give it a different meaning. For since then...
Ruler into Doll. In time, the new Dalai Lama was found. Tibet's regent made a pilgrimage to the prophetic waters of Lake Cho Khor Gye and saw reflected in its depths a three-story monastery with golden roofs, near which stood a small peasant house with carved gables. Expeditions of monks were duly sent forth and at last one of them came upon the gold-roofed monastery and gabled peasant house. Disguising themselves as servants, the monks entered through the kitchen, and a two-year-old boy ran toward one of them crying, "Sera Lama, Sera Lama...
...name was Jetsun Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso, and when he was only four years old, he became the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1950 the Chinese Communists began their invasion of Tibet, and the 15-year-old ruler fled Lhasa. Eventually the Communists persuaded him to return. Since then the young Dalai Lama and his junior, the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important Incarnation, have lived like highly prized dolls in the hands of Tibet's Communist masters, powerless, yet indispensable because of the religious fealty they command. Last week the Dalai Lama was being feted...
...Southern California, he received a bouquet of red roses from Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi. All week long he kept up a stiff schedule of spiritual talks and mass blessings, interspersed occasionally with political conferences (apart from his divine attributes, the Dalai Lama is also chairman of Tibet's Preparatory Committee to Improve Administrative and Social Structure). At all times the Dalai Lama was conspicuously attentive to Red China's Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. who was touring India at the same time...