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...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...
Closeted together for ten hours, Chou and Nehru presumably discussed all the touchy subjects that lay between them: Communist buildup in Nepal and Tibet. Chinese intentions toward Burma and Formosa; but a good deal, if not most, of the talking centered around what Nehru will tell President Eisenhower about Chou when he visits the U.S. later this month. "Now is the time," Chou told U.S. reporters, "to establish better relations. Perhaps that is not the view of the United States, and perhaps John Foster Dulles does not like me, but maybe our successors will be able to get together...