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Show Spreading News in Tibet In Tibet news is read aloud by the priests to the populace. There are two reasons for this: Few Tibetans can read, and only 50 copies of their one newspaper are printed. Walter Asboe, a European, does the job on a hand press. Then he sends the 50 papers to the lamas or priests, who summon the peo- . pie of the neighboring villages to listen to the news. The papers are then forwarded to another group of lamas. By the time they have traveled to the far frontiers of Tibet,, the news may be from six months to two years old! |