By Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-; Talty, Stephan; Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-, Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935
Files the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent rebellion in Lhasa among Tibetan rebels and chinese language occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist non secular chief endured.
summary: records the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet to India in 1959, describing the violent rebellion in Lhasa among Tibetan rebels and chinese language occupiers and the near-death incidents that the Buddhist non secular chief continued
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Lhamo Thondup considered, then reached for the wrong stick—it belonged to Ketsing Rimpoche himself. The members of the search party froze. One mistake would disqualify the boy. But then Lhamo Thondup gently let go of the stick and grabbed the Thirteenth’s cane, holding it up in front of him. The officials in the room let go of a collective breath. Later they would realize that the first walking stick had actually belonged to the Dalai Lama briefly before he gave it away to a monk. It was as if the boy had felt the spiritual traces of the Thirteenth, like fading fingerprints.
When the regent reported the vision to the National Assembly the following year, the members consulted the Nechung Oracle, the state’s chief medium, then decreed that three large search parties would head to the east to conduct a thorough search for the child Fourteenth. In September 1937, the Year of the Fire Rat, the search parties set out from Lhasa: one party headed northeast toward Amdo (which began with Ah, the first letter the regent had seen in the lake), the second party traveled due east to Kham, and the third southeast toward the regions known as Takpo and Kongpo.
At times, he would shed tears when reading them. But for the rest, he only let the verses play on his lips, not even trying to memorize them. He would edit the stories in his head to make them more exciting, or conjure up cliff-hanging adventure stories to avoid boredom. • • • Summer brought the move to the Norbulingka, and the young Dalai Lama quickly grew to love the rambling green place. He would take his younger brother, Choegyal, out on the pond in a tiny boat that could fit only the two of them.