The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-25


LEal ASA. is destined TO pass under
I the control Of either Russia OF England
ALREADY the two powers are engaged ia
military and diplomatic intriguss to gain
tne supremacy IN LhasSs. the sealed city
II the dalai lama Russian surveyors.
guarded ~ troops. are IN northern Tibet
itnd are Duli1iug permanent barracks. APP
parentiE they have gone there TO stay
me t-ngilSh are assembling 8 large mill
tdrE expedition. which viii march perha ps
70 l-la5sa ITSELF IN the spring The game
or intrigue is on, China. the protector Of
Llbet j. not only helpless but indiffer-
ent. The iamas themselves are only
aWaialening 10 the wonders Of the modern
The temple IN the far north quarter Of
fekln IS a CiiapiGared old place highly
disseminating. now that the mystery Of
past. II was formerly the palace of the
prince who became the Emperor Yung
Chsng- he endowed it richly and his
SUCCESSORS made annual visits. liberal
presents and allowances until the year
jso In that season the LANES took
fright and left Pekin for Mongolia re-
dGcing the company Of 500 or 30 pious
folk to only 200 Fortunately for the Ia
mas ana the treasures of the temple that
quarter OF the city fell to. the japanese
90 administer, and there alone the tenn
pies were not pillaged and used as mill
tarT quarters Guards stood ut the
gates for months before the Japanese gen
eral visited the temple and was shown
Inr0ugn It's ureaTy stone courts. its halls
Of images and lecture rooms Of priests.
When the tourist had 10 bride largely
70 eet I'D. ana pay more ana ught deS-
perately 10 get out there were torment
ing tales Of the spiendOrs of the altar or
naEnsnts and images. The magnificence
or the successive fonts. One found but
dingy Quadrangies. dilapidated buildings.
commonplace images, and, over all. such
dust and litter that the effect was de-
pressing.
There are some fine old bronze incense
burners Of the kieu Lung period in one
court enc good set of altar vessels OF
ffnHC rN1rT al
one altar ami painted enamel set of
beakers, flower vases urn and incense
burners in another altar: but the huge
gilded images and the tiny arhats ana
Fakans IN the fantastic rock work para
/ disc Of another pavilion are not equal TO
l those in other temples.
! The head lama of this temple was Gu
/ rious about Buddhism in Japan, and
/ used to ply his visitors with many CUES
/ tions. Had they any temples as large
/ affairs as richly furnished. the priests as
/ many end as well ro5ed and supported IN
The Buddhist chaplains Of Japanese
I regiments sent word nome. and the Hong
+ wauu temples in kioto invited the head
lama over as their guest. he Went over
with chaplain on troopsnip. was en-
/ tertained at the magnificent temples IN
/ kiOtO. and at famous temples all the way
up 10 Toxic and NilSko, He was shown
( schools museums. gardens, arsenais'
.
/ thing in the way of spiritual and mate
I rial development and progress IN Japan.
1t was too late in the summer for the
/ emperor TO grant an audience, put the
/ dazed lama vas shown through and en-
/ tertained IN the palace, and whcn he was
| TO leave Toxic some 800 priests ana a
: great company o. japanese OFFICIALS, MIL
itarv and civil, made a formal farewell
{ at the station.
1t was a sight worth Drawing an Al
| gust mondays heat to see the duh rail
/ way platform and carriages enliveened oy
/ brOcade priest Cioaks. and the group Of
1 white and gold uniforms.
The lama was duly impressed with ia
I pans greatness, her higher civilization,
and spiritual condition. and he spread the
/ wonderful accounts Of his travels for and
1 wide through the region of Lamaism:
/ Mongolia, stay at this temple or the yell
+ low temple outside me walls. and there
/ is a great going TO and fro Of the ton
4 SuTed brethren. The lama delivered con-
I tinuOus lecture on the greatness ana
/ goodness Of Japan 10 his colleagues ana
[ acolytes. and when, the court Teturned TO
( Pelin ana the emperor SO entirely neg
/ lected him the chagFined lama could not
/ endure the situation. Having last face
[ and lost heart he withdrew TO Mongolia,
/ seeking for consolation the living Buddhs
/ at Urga
/ At the Yellow temple. just north OF the
city wall there are many I1betan laInas,
/ end the Tibetau merchants, who come
| out from Lhsssa and return there each
summer make It general headquar-
/ ters- One most interesting T15etan lama
/ was IN at the Japanese photographic
place the other day-the Rev. A. Wau
EaFasau, o kom0pO lama. who came
J few years ago as an official tribute bear
Ter from the dalai lama to the Chinese
/ emperor. This annual tribute is not
! serious thing, consisting Of carpets,
drugs and incense only, since the money
tribute due all goes 10 pay for the spe-
/ Cial prayers and masses which the Tib-
( etans offer up for the welfare of China.
The kOmD9 lama was a staiWart ola
I soul, with strong and kindly face, with
/ Of his tHrban hat, and while he sat watt
I ing for the photographed to make READY
/ for him, he iadIed snuff out from lit
/ tie silver and tuTpuoise-stoppered bottie
/ to the side OF his thumb and shifted It
3 vigorously. He told me that he liked
/ Pekin better than Lhassd. stnd he also
I told me that IN 1890 Burlat Mongoi
cane 70 Lhassa and excited the iamas
with the news that the chinese empire
( had fallen and the emperor had fie1. Inc
( lamas had been told Of a war at the
I time the boxers began opera tons. and
( had been asked to nray for the success
( of Chinese arms.
There was great co1stsrnation and the
BUriat easily persuaded the chief OIL
Cials and many lamas to sign 8 paper
asking Russia to project the Ifbetans.
Then some merchants arrived direct from
2 4
ment OF China still lived, that imperial
prociamations were posted on the walls
+ as usual. that the emperor was Ia ShanSi.
to be sure, but Prince Ching and II
HUNG Chang we've i'm Pel.in and had driv-
en- away al but a few foreigners. The
angry lamas turned upon the Burlat IN
wrath and he lied 20 Mongolia.
"a
As to recent foreign travellers in Tibet
and Ltassa. there have been Russian sur
VeVOrs in the north part of Tibet Tor
q year, but the lama saiC the only for
eigner actually IN Ihassa was jap
unese doctor. who STUDIED tire sacred
/ books for year in Sera university ana
suddenly disappeared. IL was not until
tnis doctor wrote back letters from Ne
pad that all Lhassa learned mat Jap
anese had been m their midst unsus-
pected for all shat time
The merchants who came up from
Lhassa this June had many stories TO
tell about this Japanese doctors, aad the
kompo lama was little dazed when we
cried out that all the world knew about
him the famous priest. Ekai kaWagUchi
whose travels iu Tibet and long stay in
Lhassa have been ths tSlk OF Japsc for
eogle MONTH.
Since an other travellers after Ab5e Hue
had failed 10 enter Lhassa, it remained
for q Japanese to attempt 1t ana Sue
coed. The priest kawakuchs went on
purely religious errand, his OBJECT beilS
TO see ana search for certain Buddhist
writings. supposed 10 be treasured II the
great temple cf Tibet. He spent a year
I ia India studying Tibetan. soTne months
sn Nepal and on the Tihetan border. and
: q wear travelling western Tibet before he
/ ventured into the capital.
I Representing himself as thlnese Gee
/ tor. ne had great Vosue among the drop
steal. whom he was aDte 10 cure. one
/ OF his grateful patients, ire minister OF
under his protection the doughty Jap
auese continued his SanSETif ard TiDCtan