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Show FIRST INTERVIEW EVER GIVEN BYV DALAI LAMA, HEAD OF BUDDHIST RELIGION S fc; . -i ". ' . ' ' - . - t il ; . , ; " ' , c " ' 11 - v i -EAitAaZ OT TH .LAMA. A3" LHA6iC iHhjw Declares Buddhism Superior Superi-or to Christianity; Finally to Embrace the World. NEW YORK, May 17 The irreprea-tibia irreprea-tibia American interviewer haa succeed ad at laat ia talking with the dalai lama of Tibet, generally regarded aa the moat inapproachable being in the world. Very few men of white skin have ever eea him and countless thousand of hi followers hold him to be a deity. The first interview ever obtained with him will be published her this week by the Continent, a Presbyterian denominational de-nominational journal, Ita traveling rep. reaentativa, William T. 'Ellis of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, met the lama in tha village of Darjeeling beneath the Himalaya snows, where, he ie exiled in an asylum prepared for him by, the British. "The lama ia not an impressive individual in-dividual in appearance," write th interviewer. in-terviewer. "Hi faea ia pork marked and hi "in are very large and curiously curious-ly shaped. Hie mustache i. waxed horizontally. hor-izontally. Hi. head ia bullet shaped. He haa a hobby for eleanlineas unusual in theae regiona. He eat. from a golden bowl and sleep, between spotlea sheet, of satin." Of tha things th lama had to talk about tVi item that moat Impressed hie interviewer waa a atatement that a intended upon hi return .to Tibet to aend many .of hia young mea to America for a western education. ' The Japanese and Chinee, example in this regard had impressed him very much and h declared that it could, ba followed fol-lowed by th people of Tibet with, great advantage. 7 He also proposed that ' Tibet, aad even the sacred eity of Lhasa itself, should ba thrown open to the commerce of the world and tha ancient policy of seclusion abandoned.- Ha declared that Buddhism as a religion wae superior to Christianity and prophesied that in 400 years all mankind will be enrolled ia a Buddhist fellowship. |