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...sack suit with a green fountain pen protruding from a vest pocket. After playing with his mastiff and smoking a great many cigarets, he sent for and read all the foreign comments he could find, and ate. with little relish, a dinner of sharks' fins, "Buddha's ears" mushrooms, dove's eggs, octopus tentacles and lily roots...
Girding up their Siamese loins, yellow-robed priests bathed skimpy little King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni last week, made them ready in the sight of Buddha for a second visit to the U. S. where His Majesty's eyes will be further attended to (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932). Just as they were about to sail the Siamese Government was obliged to announce that "slight trouble has broken out in the Navy and it is not entirely on the side of the government...
Down through the snow-swept passes of Tibet last week drifted reports that yellow-hatted-monks had picked the 14th Dalai Lama, reincarnation of Buddha and successor to the late Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho, temporal ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans (TIME, Jan. 1). After weighty examination of sacred books and relics, astrological signs and portents, the monks had come upon a babe in the outskirts of Lhasa, who had been born the night the old Dalai Lama died. The infant into whose body the spirit of the Dalai Lama had supposedly passed was to be left with...
...southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers...
Died. Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai-Wang-Chu-Chueh- Le-Lang-Chieh. the Dalai Lama, 13th reincarnation of Buddha, ruler of Tibet; in Lhasa...