DALAI LAMA
INFANT SUCCESSOR FOUND. TWO YEARS’ SEARCH ENDED. PRESENTATION SHORTLY. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) KALIMPONG, Sept. 1. After two years’ search by monks and soothsayers, a new infant Dalai Lama has been recognised. He will be publicly presented to the populace when Tashi Lama reaches Lhasa. The Dalai Lama died in December, 1933. The Tibetans believe that the Lama’s spirit passes to the body of a child born at the exact moment of death. The holy one is identified by marks on the body, and possesses instinctively the attributes belonging to his predecessor. . ■
Tashi Lama, the second to the Dalai Lama in the Heirarchy, who has been exiled to China since 1925, is now returning. , ; • •-./ ■ j The whereabouts of the new' Dalai. Lama will be kept secret, pending pre-. sentation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 275, 2 September 1936, Page 5
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