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six ^imalapan mmt$ Jul? 16 1950
HANDS OFF TIBET
It Must Not Be The Second Korea
■ ■
The Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama, But long before could an Imperial
Thar Sze, Lhasa, the Tibetan Lamarchy-. Agent like Lord Curzon poke his nose
such are the strange names that conjure to Lhasa affair, Buddhism had made its
up to-day the mystic odour of the ancient, way inside Tibet's mountain fastness^for
But behind that placid inscrutability tnp first time around the 7th *«*fitury
and the austerity of the Lamaserie is A.D. by Hie Tibetan King Song Tsen
crystallised in a' black conspiracy of the Oom-po. And out of it gradually emer-
reactionaries, led by Anglo-American im- ged-call it Lamaism or Lamarchy—a
perialism, to make India's neighbour politico-religious institution of State based
Tibet a cockpit of powermongers. on scriptures and feudalism and arianged
Tibet js being songht to be made g». hierarchy of the Lamas, the
a party to the global cold war qow Buddhist monks. 1 his Lamarchy that
blowing (hot in Korea) between the world ?Sme "lto " stence m the 13th century
forces of socialism and capitalism. But !! oi,c0™e of the 8am(; 8enu1 as Eoropes
• to whom does Tibet belong ? Why are £aPal theocracy and ancient India's
the hand, of the Westerners pulling the Brahmanica! rule were. But the snow-
wire and what for ? caPJ'e;' r°a"l<fs mountain-locked terrain
_,, j . . , _ . . ot libet made all the difference and
Things that belong to Caesar must be k t the institution of Lamarchy surviv
given unto Caesar. Tibet must not be ing and operative even in these days
the second K.>rea. Gf Atomic energy, supersonic flights and
In this Lamaland of 470,00 square-miles machinofacture.
and population near about the same •»'.•«•» „ « L
as of Greater Caleutta (60 lakhs), history Dalai ^ma & Panchen Lame
has been rather a prisoner in the hands From the 16th century onward, the
of formidable mountain ranges where it .Supremo of the Lamarchy came to be
has moved in oriental slowness institu- identified as the reincarnatiou of Lord
tionalised in the meditative seclusion of tfuddha and named since then the Dalai
the only existing theocracy. Uhat, how- Lama who claims to be the spiritual
ever, did not prevent the blood-stained —trtfd temporal head of Tibet. But either
fingers of British imperialism from putting the necessity of division of functional
them in the Tibetan pie. labour or the fact of individual rivalry
Political Career Ot Recent Origin soon established in Tibet another head-
Though the history of Tibet must Lama, known as Panchen Lama. The
be going back to the hoary past of Dalai Lama who is supposed to be the
hundreds of years, once linked with the inoarnation of Tibet's patron deity,
glorious cultral achievement of ancient " Chen-Re-Zi", and an eventual saviour
Hindu kings of India, its political history of the world, the Panchen Lama ia
in the modern sense of the words actually regarded as the incarnation of that deity
commenced from the first decade of who is to be the teacher of the yet-to-
this century. come world-saviour Dalai Lama.
HANDS OFF TIBET
It Must Not Be The Second Korea
■ ■
The Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama, But long before could an Imperial
Thar Sze, Lhasa, the Tibetan Lamarchy-. Agent like Lord Curzon poke his nose
such are the strange names that conjure to Lhasa affair, Buddhism had made its
up to-day the mystic odour of the ancient, way inside Tibet's mountain fastness^for
But behind that placid inscrutability tnp first time around the 7th *«*fitury
and the austerity of the Lamaserie is A.D. by Hie Tibetan King Song Tsen
crystallised in a' black conspiracy of the Oom-po. And out of it gradually emer-
reactionaries, led by Anglo-American im- ged-call it Lamaism or Lamarchy—a
perialism, to make India's neighbour politico-religious institution of State based
Tibet a cockpit of powermongers. on scriptures and feudalism and arianged
Tibet js being songht to be made g». hierarchy of the Lamas, the
a party to the global cold war qow Buddhist monks. 1 his Lamarchy that
blowing (hot in Korea) between the world ?Sme "lto " stence m the 13th century
forces of socialism and capitalism. But !! oi,c0™e of the 8am(; 8enu1 as Eoropes
• to whom does Tibet belong ? Why are £aPal theocracy and ancient India's
the hand, of the Westerners pulling the Brahmanica! rule were. But the snow-
wire and what for ? caPJ'e;' r°a"l<fs mountain-locked terrain
_,, j . . , _ . . ot libet made all the difference and
Things that belong to Caesar must be k t the institution of Lamarchy surviv
given unto Caesar. Tibet must not be ing and operative even in these days
the second K.>rea. Gf Atomic energy, supersonic flights and
In this Lamaland of 470,00 square-miles machinofacture.
and population near about the same •»'.•«•» „ « L
as of Greater Caleutta (60 lakhs), history Dalai ^ma & Panchen Lame
has been rather a prisoner in the hands From the 16th century onward, the
of formidable mountain ranges where it .Supremo of the Lamarchy came to be
has moved in oriental slowness institu- identified as the reincarnatiou of Lord
tionalised in the meditative seclusion of tfuddha and named since then the Dalai
the only existing theocracy. Uhat, how- Lama who claims to be the spiritual
ever, did not prevent the blood-stained —trtfd temporal head of Tibet. But either
fingers of British imperialism from putting the necessity of division of functional
them in the Tibetan pie. labour or the fact of individual rivalry
Political Career Ot Recent Origin soon established in Tibet another head-
Though the history of Tibet must Lama, known as Panchen Lama. The
be going back to the hoary past of Dalai Lama who is supposed to be the
hundreds of years, once linked with the inoarnation of Tibet's patron deity,
glorious cultral achievement of ancient " Chen-Re-Zi", and an eventual saviour
Hindu kings of India, its political history of the world, the Panchen Lama ia
in the modern sense of the words actually regarded as the incarnation of that deity
commenced from the first decade of who is to be the teacher of the yet-to-
this century. come world-saviour Dalai Lama.