The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
The Child Wonder of a
Strange Land.
An Audience With the Dalai
Lama in the Heart of
Thibet.
HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.
"A Boy of Eight Years, With the
Wisdom of Sages, Who Says
the Science of Numbers
Is an Illusion.
HE KNOWS EVERYTHING.

Christian countries such as this have SO
vague an idea of Thibetan culture and
particularly of occult science IN Ihlbet
that the account which the German
scholar, Professor Heinrich Aensoldt,
gives of his experiences in the land OF
Buddha will be regarded by the many as
mere fiction. He visited the city OF Lhass,
and there. after much patient waiting,
and aided by strong Buddhistic influences,
he was granted an audience with the Dalai
Lama, the chief of the Buddhist hierarchy.
The Dalai is always child OF very tender
age, seldom over II years. A new Dalai is
usually child of or 6 years of which.
being chosen from among the people, is
solemnly installed and proclaimed The
most holy incarnation OF Buddha, ana
from that moment seems to paTtake OF
the knowledge and power OF the great
teacher of transcendental wisdom" Pro-
lessor Hensoldt had been informed that the
Dalai was feebie-minded puppet in the
hands of crafty clique. He says he
found him a boy 8 years old, with eyes
that sent establishment and awe through
the beholder. The Dalai addressed Hen
soldt in the latter's own native German
dialect, which he could not have acquired
by any process known to ordinary NOR
tails. Furthermore, the professor had
taken special precautions to conceal his
nationality. The Dalai fathomed his Wis
itor's inmost thoughts. His knowledge OF
science was profound. in speaking OF
time, the Dalai said it was mere lllu-
sion," and he sought to show that mathe-
MATES, the most stable of sciences, was
based on the larry fabric of a vision. "
There is no such thing as time" he
said. at is an Illusion, like the concep
ton of space. You say that time is sue
cession of events. How, if it can be shown
that there are no events and that every
thing is illusion? What is century, what
is a year. what is day? You say that a
day is the time this planet requires for
rotating once around its axis. Take the
equator of this earth, divide it into
twenty four equal parts build house at
each of these points; what would be the
result? Why, according to your logic, you
would have an hours difference in time
in each of these twenty-four houses. Now,
imagine these houses ten degrees farther
north; you would then have them much
closer together, yet there still would be an
hours difference in each; and, finally
imagine these houses so close around the
north pole that they form a complete
circle and are in actual contact-still there
would be an hours difference of time in
each. Ii 1t is II O'Clock in one house, it is
l o'clock in the house to the right and II
O'Clock in that to the left. If the houses
were all connected by doors you could run
in five minutes through a hundred years
of time. In fact, you could recall the past
and step into the vanished centuries by
merely running in the opposite direction.
On the other hand, you could Danish time
completely and enforce an everlasting
present by stepping into the next house
the moment the hour was on the point of
expiring; thus you could always have it
at II O'Clock. Indeed, by stepping 10 the
pole itself, even this small exertion
becomes superhuous, because there is
absolutely no time there"
In regard to the science of mathematics
the Dalai described it as another illusion,
proceedin G thus:
What is mathematics based upon? On
Hypothetical assum ption, viz, the num-
Der one, which has no existence. This may
seem a new truth to you, but it is as old
as the eternal stars. What is your num-
Der one? 1t must relate to some existing
object, for all abstract conceptions are
ideal and therefore unreal. What, then,
is one? Is it a stone, a tree, an animal?
That stone, tree or animal will not be the
same to any two persons on this planet,
because no two minds are alike; besides,
the stone which you see to-day is not the
stone which you beheld yesterday, for
even since yesterday your mind has
undergone changes, however slight, and
your world is no longer the same. Mathe-
matics, then, is based on something
which has no tangible or even dehnable