Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-08-30

Inc Chinese Government knows well that the deposition of the Dalai Lama has not had the slightest effect upon the relations of the Buddhists to the head of their faith. The government is giving him about $l00,000 a year to support his hign dignity.
 The outside world has heard little of his movements, but the fact is that he has lived in his palace at Urgay only part of the time for the last four years. He has spent many months at the famus convent of Kumbum, on the eastern edge of Tibet, and great num- bers of the faithful from Tibet, Mongo- lia, Cashmere, Siberia and other lands have visited him there.
 He will not have long journey to Pekin, as he has been living for some time in that great state, and with a large retinue in the monastery at Wu. tai-shan, within five days of the Chi. nese capital. Mir. Geerts while in the service of the Viceroy of Kansu saw the party of the Dalai Lama as it was mak- ing it's way to Wutaishan.
 The cortege was composed of several hundred Lamas or Buddhist priests and Tibetan soldiers mounted on camels. There was an enormous amout of bag gage in the train, and the immediate attendants of the Dalai Lama were mounted on horses and surrounded the yellow palanquin borne by eight men in which was hidden from all eyes the young little man who is distinguished above all others among the hundreds of millions of Buddhists.
 MT. Geerts secured very good pie ture of the camp of the Dalai Rama The tents of his large party are seat tered around his own, but the habita. tion made sacred by his occupancy is distinguished from the others by the fact that it is larger, with circular sides and a conical top, and is isolated from the others by high fence of cloth.
 A few hours before this camp was pitched on the outskirts of the large Chinese city of Lanchow, the Vieeroy of Kansu, with all the other Chinese authorities sallied forth to welcome the distinguished Traveller, and thousands of Chinese on their knees, lined the road all the way to the camping ground.
 Mir. Geerts succeeded in taking anoth- CT photograph, which would seem to anyone not knowing it's story to be scarcely worth looking at; but after all, it is remarkable picture. ne day the Dalai Lama sallied forth on horseback, with an escort of three of his digni- taries to worship in a neighboring tenn pie. Geerts knew the route by which he would return to his camp and so he established himself and his camera in the bushes by the roadside.
 It was not pleasant undertaking, for Buddhist enthusiasm had been aroused to fever heat by the presence thousands would have thought it an agreeable duty to assist in killing wretch who should presume to infict upon the Buddhist Pope the unspeak- able indignity of having his picture taken. Geerts risked almost more than he dared when he stuck the nose of his camera out through the shrubbery and snapshotted the Dalai Lama.
 The picture was taken at such long range that the pictures on horseback are scarcely larger than pins, and the Dalai Lama can be distinguished only by the fact that he was riding white horse. Such as it is it is likely to be the only photograph of the present in- carnation of Buddha that the world will ever sec This was the only opportun- ity that Geerts found to see the Dalai Lama, and he writes of him:
 "He is a little man, not at all i'm pUsing in appearance, and one could scarcelye believe he is the most pow erful parsonage in all Asia and the re- ligious chief of 600,0O0,000 of human beings.'
 The only predecessor of the present Dalai Lama who visited Pekin was the fifth Dalai Lama who spent the winter of 1852 at the Chinese capital as the guest of the Emperor Shun-che, the first ruler of the present dynasty. It is re- ported from Pekin that the young man will be received with the distinguished honors that were conferred upon his pre-. decessor, two and half centuries ago.
 The Tash Lama has visited India, has met the Prince of Wales and many other white men, has acquired much worldly wisdom, and is said by those who have met him to be a learned, good natured and an admirable man. There is no quarrel between him and the Dalai Lama, and if they meet in Pekin it will doubtless be on the most amic- able terms.
 No government on earth could confer upon him the place which the Dalai Lama holds in the Buddhist world. He knows that this place cannot possibly be his and he has shown from the first that he would not dream of attempting to usurp it.
 There is very impressive side to the recent history of the Dalai Lama. He was practically driven out of Tibet and the expulsion was cinched by the action of the Chinese government which to curry favor with England stripped him of his political function. But