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Show BEYOND ALL RANK AND VEALTH. Dalai Lama of Tibet Is in a Cliti by Himself. Enviable among men Is the Dolsi Lama of Tibet. He can wander in foreign parts for years and no or." questions his right lo Dame hi successor suc-cessor in the person of the -T.i5hl Lama. The powerful malefactora -I Peking, from the emperor down to the humblest magistrate, hate him. ani are afraid of him. but prostrate thcin-eelvc-s before him and contribute to his funds. He Is on Irreconcilable enemy of the railroads, to which he prefers his sedan chair: but he rM' over them to Peking because h K after all, a practical man. When tbo Chinese' officials argue with him. hi acquiesces, but nevertheless grr& 03 doing what pleaaeB htm bpst. Who-I Who-I ever openly takes issue with bin5 13 blasted with spiritual thunder. When he decides, beavn U on bis e I -Jo ; when he changes his mind, heaven does likewise. He can travel with a retinue of 300 caniHs and 700 asses-and asses-and yet escape the charge of courtlnS publicity. He can refuse to mai terms with the hated British, but can send the Tashl Lama to se what can be done to arrive at an und'T standing. Free from the common rules of consistency, from all rtgarJ for tradition that does not square jour purposes, making your law as you go aloag. you are to be rao-' envied among men. oh. happy i1J Lama! |