| Show i r m wv M Mr arm r I STRANGE RULER I im f A I Pilgrims ng Wally DoilY by Grand Ormid Budd S May Look Lo k Upon HIs Hla 5 n J t M drat of ot mystery ri lory hM always alnY t A t great Kr personality min ItY of ot tho tl t ha Uti Iu ed d ho the per ur Tibet Hundreds or of 1111 of at hat Laura China nn ran I Tibet te lay day to pay go ernil n nto M Ate Att A unbeliever who should but UI any In to S t to enter Iia I lIce CO Would auld t the tho ho risk of oC hla hl life do so BO pI ft of A of RI a sad I p n to on an account Recount of Jita hili the h by tho the rand Grand Lama Latin This TUIa 4 11 I where name iamO Is made mado plan to Lhasa about three the iho r pars MIS ago o old in from tram Ids his home near An As at tho the north end cod of ot tho Iho Can COli ea R The sun has already Y referred to tho the book which ho wrote on his hili return home has hB been translated front from Uk into Hussion nUllS lUll Tim Thu book con of tho the capital of ains talon o n I de l s account of ot tho the Tibet amt nn l gives Rives an run trusts to tho the Lamas both whom ire lite supposed etl to 10 bo Lo rl of l two of the nation nit one of of ot two of or tho t disciples of HUll Hud dim when an he was WILli upon the tho The Tile I Lenin is hI theoretically the spiritual successor or of ot the tho grant 1 t founder found r of the but hUI practically the tho ho Dalai henna has hns tho rho supremacy owing to Ms Ills residence at tit tho the copilot capital tie lie Is ID railed called the tho great lung while the isle Other Grand Lama Iama Is known ns us tho great teacher or other the tho Dalai Dahl al nl alwa always wa ways dies young At least no writer who ha hM ever visited Miami Iha l has hall over spoken of ot lint him aa tie anything more moro than u a aboy I Colonel boY Ilok has raid gold that t r tho nm Da DaMA MA IU of Tibet are ure Invariably children and on that they die an as II those die 1110 whom the love lov Manning who vI Milted Lhasa In Ill 1811 In tho the of ofa a 11 lIndoo doctor dO lor sold mild lIl tho the Dalai Lama Lunia xa a ft n well princely child chilli about 7 years old 1 lei I r HUB wrote In III 1848 1841 that the Dolan was urns then thell 1 U II years yearn of ot ngo ne neThe I The Tho Hindu Sing Ping wrote that In III MH 1 6 the die dm OrI trend ml nit Lama wan a 1 fair and 1111 handsome boy bey of ot 13 yearn enre entirely en tItI d tv by tJ the or temporal ruler of at Lhasa There Thue swim scenes accordingly to bo ho a n new nev Dalai Dalal Lama every cery tow taw years rears rind and It would be Interesting to know why It In Is that thai they never reach roach mature years rather darkly hinted that grand Lamas are aro made to go Ita through their transmigrations very rapidly Hi till the intervals being probably in in n proportion to lO tho the of ot trouble rouble they the give to the Pus Dan another Indian explorer er who pretended to tu be he n Buddhist was wao the intent authority on the Grand Lama non till rill Kalmuk nik wrote his Ills book took Chandra wrote 1010 of ot him an nR ft a 1 child of s 8 with bright blight and fair complex complexIon Ion and rosy racy cheeks ks Ills oyes era aro large Jarta and und penetrating tho iho shape of ot hIN hili taro tarn remarkably re Aryan though Warred marred ly br b the obliquity of 01 Ids his eyes The Tho thinness of oC JIH hili person was wai probably duo dUI to tho the fatigue fall tie of at court aul to In the religious reil loos duties 11 mil anti ar tic o of at his estate A y miter miler covered bin liln head and Its j nJ nt hid his hili ears u II yellow mantle man III draped II ra his lib jointed palms It Is la a fact fuet tint that Unk 1111 the IIII latest observer to see III the Dal nal Dalai al ai Lama falls to describe the appear appearance once ance of ot the boy bay who Is III now nosy In that ox ex halted I position o ho hu compensates for tor this thin strange however by Iy log Ing the Iho flint first details yet published of ot tho the thor ceremony r r of ot presentation at tit the dally daily receptions which this rills Orand Lama gives to the pilgrims who are aro constant constantly ly IY Hooking flocking to 10 tine the holy city elt When was wall In Lhasa tho Dalai Dalal Lama not In his hili famous temple t mple palace on the sacred hill Of ot Io Po lola tola for lor he lad had gono gone to his summer sunnier palace a D charming abode n ode odeIn In the midst of a II park spark a n few tew miles west weak of Lhasa Thither the stream of ot pil pilgrims grins grims was pouring and the tho ceremony of ot presentation there Is sold said to be Won Illen tM nal with that nt al Potala I IThe Tho The quaintness of short I art Recount mint nn an scarcely be reproduced from the Russian Nubian version front from which tha tho following has hUB been belll for tor the theun sun Nun un As ts tar far ns as a known n It Is the only JIll Hort r ort of or the Kalmuk narrative that has y rt t 1 teen been turned Into English The Dalai Lama writes receives every day diU all the pit pil pilgrims films grims who have arrived In the holy illy Ill it to pay him bUn their homage Tho The audiences audlem es are tiro usually given glen nt nl 9 In the tho morning everybody from the tho no nolies nobles lies bibs to 10 the common people being U legs cd to attend At tt the tM time appointed for tho the au nu dUnco Ill tho the Dalai Lama Luna enters the large hull hall and aid takes his hili n cent at on a 1 throne that Is about five feet foet In height As AM soon Hoon mi nn he hu is 18 sealed Rented about two hun tired dred hall half of ot them dials In III the tho government nod and lieu holt monks from tho art monasteries 1 Ito a take their places tight an 1 one OliO hundred hUI rot to 10 tho light and one hun tired dred to tho the left of the tho throne Then the tho pilgrims and other devo dou tees tee who have hMO been formed In lino liua outside begin to 10 the Into the tho hall piss Pass Ing hug up between lot a n line lino of or attendants to the throne whet when each in III his hili turn stands Blonds trice to 10 face fuco with tho the Dalai La Lama Lama ma Guards who are Me very cry conspicuous for far their tall toll stature slature enter r the lull hull on either cither side HIli of ot the linn of It The guards are aro provided with long lens Ilona and It In Is their duty to lu prevent anything unseemly from front occurring Tho Thu Paint Lama makes makos a n distine IlI tick tion between the tho pilgrims pilgrim to m tho the value of lit tho the presents ont they lh y bring him him Those who como conic without any gift receive Indeed the tho ns as aswell well ox as II tho Iho others but they depart delart without this the si 81 sic o e ml Ion 1011 l on r ra conferred upon upun those hOllo I wl wi o 0 bring utter miner gold guld allot or copper cuppe engraved with n a 1 design of at the universe In no nc with Ideas I others may filly offer olter a n silk Milk scurf scarf or H only a II little ten tea or rice It was wan on tIm the rooming morning of the tho third day of tho the month of the dog that I wont went out float Lhasa to 10 Norbu I found tho the pilgrims already to the number of at or 40 CO COI I was wU Introduced Into tho the hall before most of them for my lilY hands were we 1 full of ot presents I watt was escorted In hi front of ot tho the throne throna on which was wan the thc Da Dalai 1 a hit lai Lama My Sty Iy attendant told me Ine to kneel and salute the Ilse great king by touching my any Ill forehead three tines Urn to the iho floor After Atter I had done IlOIlO HO so I arose and pre pree presented Ire seated tho the gold gohl plate which the Dalai Dilal Lama deigned to accept with his own in hands Ho Ile Immediately paused passed Pla U it on to toa toa a n who was HIli standing quite near I added to this Hilt offering altering the following article each of which witch the lie Ih great creat king l received and parsed on to the servant A an Imago image of ot tho the unman Ito lie divinity n a sacred book hool a n gas gan n a 1 commemorative medal 1 l lane lans of ot silver r about 1 and a n gold goldcoin goldcoin goldcoin coin of ot our own czar Then I 1 waited to receive his and the tho great king deigned to pinco his hands handson on my h la as liS a 1 token loell of ot tho the benedic benediction tion Then I was Wall escorted n a little to tho the right where stood a 1 pilgrim who had preceded preceded me mc A monk moult held out Ills ids to tu me mite which I kissed another was buying pieces of ot yellow rellow and red sink silk which he with Ms ids breath and aul gave 11 V to us liS Then the other pilgrim and myself my elf were placed before tho ho Dalai Dalal Lama again and were WIIO honored with being permitted to taste the tho ten tea en and rice of ot which ho lie had bind partaken This Thill ended tho Ise ceremony nH as tar far nH as we WI were w r eon con corned cot nod This Thin bo boy whom the priest had prostrated pro himself IH In ac at acknowledged ns RS tho the head of or tho ho t church throughout Tibet Mongolia M 11 gall n anti and China Chinn loo lies no supremacy ac according n cording In to Professor Hh Davids over Ills his In hl Japan and even uen In ill Unit China there theio are aio many Irma who mo are practically not 1101 under his control or ur Influence Tho The same amo authority tells lelli how tho tM grants lama inma Is III chosen When either cither the tho Lama Ioma or the tho Dalai Lama Jama dies It Is III for iho survivor to determine In whose hoso body the tho celestial being who outward form torm has been Leen dissolved has hal been een pleased again to 10 In III Incarnate carnate himself For FOI that purpose o the names of ot all the thc male children bom born just otter after the death of ot the flue deceased grand lame lama are laid before the survivor He lie chooses ell three out of ot thin tho whole number their are thrown Into a n golden goldon casket pro pio sided for Cor that purpose by a n former fOlmer em cm emperor emperor of China ChInn The Tho of at the great reat monasteries then lien assemble anti and alter after a 1 week of ot prayer the lots are aro drawn In their pres presence presence ence once and In tho the presence of ot the Iho lilt hint grand Lama and of or the tho Chinese pol poi political resident The child chIlli whose whoso name none is first drawn Is IR the tho future futuro grand lama Inma the tho two others receive each cach of ot them BOO pieces H of If sliver silver and are arc nl returned to 10 their thelt patents New York Sun Hun |
