Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-29

rushed up TO the car and there steps OH
from a modern private railroad coaeh-the
living god.
what? The living god7 The live
Buddha2 A god come to earth. and that
in a railroad coach7 It least say a flying
machine" Possibly the grim old Picking
city wall. looming its forty feet OF gray
ness aloft and stolidiy regarding the pro
cession from almost directly above the
head Of the living god, utters a few APP
propriate remarks in somewhat more con-
vincing Chinese terms than these and then
tries TO settle back TO take care Of the
usual afternoons rikishR and cart and dust
and coolie rush under Its gorgeous $4,000
CHEN men or front gate pagoda.
But It cannot rest.
who is this Dalai Lama they have been
doing so much talking about here for the
last two months, anyhow The old EN-
brasured wall with it's big butteresses,
though not from Missouri, would like to
be shown.
God Of All the Lands.
Well, he's the god on earth Of all lamas
the Buddhists Of Mongolia, Tibet, China,
part of India and Central Asia From
upon his citadel-the plateau Of Central
Asia, Tibet, the exclusive, and Lhassa, its
holy of HOLES, 1900 feet above the or
binary mortal-does he WELD his sway.
He holds in absolute rein these rawboned
Mongols of powerful frame, the hardy de-
scenGants of the hordes Of Genghis and
Kublai Khan and OF the Huns that spread
devastation over Europe.
From the grassy plains they rove about
and worship him and make pilgrimage to
him His effulgent majesty holds in awe
the simple-minded Tibetans who have no
land. no possessions OF their own, but by
his grace are allowed to exist in the
sacred land we kno1 as Tibet. His are all
the lands, the wealth, the lives within its
borders; their is the privilege to exist by
his graciousness.
They know no temporal power on earth
greater than the Chinese empire. Eng
lands Dreadnoughts, the mailed fist, ETC.,
are nought to them. But they would stir
things up against China, even China, the
awe inspiring, IL the Dalai Lama were not
treated in proper style. With these two
Tartar tribes, the rovers of the flowery
plains OF Mongolia, the jewellers in the
lofty fortresses Of Tibet, simple, supersti-
tious, who would kill one OF their number
before allowing him to depart from de-
votion to the Dalai to profess Christianity,
. does his power chiefly lie.
, Got an Early start,
v 0oOA III v n ~ uAu Az Ddlla haNO MS
I beginning. Then was there merely a plain,
3 ordinary king ruling the land of Tibet.
But just before this time, as the result of
4 the persuasion of the young Chinese Bud
3 dhist wife of King Srong-Tsau-Gumpo,
Z Buddhist missionaries had made their way
= into the heights of the Himalayas from
r India and the king had turned Buddhist.
. In that year he had sent to India for
n the hOlv qCrintnraa Of RudHbiam Rnt the
5 devil worshippers were not pleased. Their
long devil driving whips cracked viciously.
the tusks of their ferocious false heads
K they put over their upper bodies as they
8 drove the devils out in their wild dance
projected ominously. So they mastered
the Buddhists.
q But these returned, they grew the more
o rapidly, they became powerful and wealthy,
The old chiefs of the land instead OF using
y the abbots and divines to foster their own
4 power, as they had expected, had to fight
for the very existence of their strength.
There grew up the Red Caps and the
Yellow Caps-the Reds the military body
> striving to make use of the religious to
forward their designs, the Fellows the re-
, ligious body with popular support.
i Genghis Khan Started TroubIe
IL "a OhhU 0OOhbhAo NaAa hdd
n swept down upon the country and con.
! quered 1t. Kablai, his son, -eached up into
Tibet when he had spare time in l2s ane
v made his favorite Buddhist priest tn,
supreme lama of the empire, king of the
m great and precious law, giving him tenn
n poral power In Tibet. And now do we ap
q preach the first real Dalai Lama.
l. This was a victory for the Reds. but no
IN for long. The YenowP finally triumphed
p and In 1919 their chief priest, the Dalo
10 Lama, became the sole temporal power II
10 Tibet. A divine origin was discovered foi
the Dalai Lamas by the fifth OF the lin,
ID about 1850, when the Reds were driven gu
he of power entirely. About 1850 the power o
China over Tibet was firmly established.
Babies In Tibet have to look out 10
themselves on occasion or they may b
10 snapped up to become a Dalai Lama befor,
they know II. In former times all the ba
bies who were born exactly the minute tn
"a Dalai died-not a fraction OF a second, NOR
or less supposedly-were collected. From
them by lot was the new dalai selected, an,
10 in the new selection did evidences Of diyin,
n origin Immediately appear.
"a How He aDpen
But the present dalai's arising was differ
ent. 1t began to appear that the lot wa
not an absolutely certain method Of discov
ering in whom the divine spirit of the dc
parted dalai had reincarnated itself, So
particularly pure priest from one Of tn,
~ great lamaseries of Tibet was told to r.
~ forth and find a successor when the mex
, dalai died.
- wandering by the side Of a lake nea
r. Lhassa he saw the reflection of the new
OF Dalai In the CLASSY surface. He found tn
living counterpart Of the lake picture in
re peasants cottage as he returned home
* This was divine pointing indeed.
so this is the parsonage who though
he must needs have a roadway built owe
me Instead Of riding in through my gat
n like ordinary mortalsi' continues the oil,
Pekin wall. They say that used to z
a. with his predecessors when was younI
n and didn't know any better.
re but things have changed. Dalai Lama
from that stick-in-the-mud place, Lhassi
: aren't so much. We're som pumpkins our
selves. =.