CHARGES AGAINST THE DALAI LAMA.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1904, Page 5

CHARGES AGAINST THE DALAI LAMA.

(Rccojypd September 20, 9.33 a.m.) BOMBAY, 19th Septembor. Tho Aniban reuses, the late Dalaj Lama, qf many off«noe» too gross to go unpunished, including the non-settlement of thp Sikkim-Tibot bqundmy. In futuref uture (,he Ainban will conduct Tibetan affiiiro.

Tho Grand Lama pf Taehi-Lhunpo — which i« a great monastery a milo or so from Shigattn, the town of second impqrtunco in Tibet— -ia regarded by t|ie commqn people with oven greater awe than tho D»J»i Lama. Spiritually, the Tnehi Lnynn. is thp superior pf tho Dalui Lama, and until 1642 \w was ojeo ternpmally suiierior to his Lhasean rival. In that year Lhaiwa secured the undisputed sovereignty of Central Tibet by the aid of Kushi Kli«n. The Ta^hl Lama was loft (supreme in tbo othor part of Uie kingdom, but gradually the wholo tempera) power was tr&npfernxt to Lha«u. Thus the spiritual superior of tho Dalai Lumq became "'temporarily his inferior, and a rivalry sprang up which has cqntinuod to tho present day. Tho balanco of power is fairly oven, but, according to tho London Times cor, respondent, tho presence of t|ie Chinese Ambon and of the three populous monasteries of Lbnftsa, with thejr annual Cbineso eubsidv, turns tho scule ngtilnk Ta'sliiLhunpo. Ev«ry offensivo actiqn against UlO British has been the work of Lnnwa, and throughout tlip To»hi Lnma, The" Times cprrcspondent oayn, has regarded tho attempt of tlw Indian Government to open up umicubta relations with Tibet as in no way compromising ojthpr thp roliKioaß or pplitknl independenco of Tibet. Tho correspondent advocated making a friendly treaty with Tashi-Lhunpo and ix»toring her ' to tjio position oho once occupioq, as she far more thnn Lh««sq would guarantee tho northern uppronchos to India. "Wo may," ho said, "bo content to havo guaranteed the independence of Southern Tibet in return for a friendly neutrality and isolation which the examples of Nepal aud Bhutan have already shown us to bo tho best reinforcement of the obstacles that nature h«s somewhat lavishly flprejid m the way of tho invader of India from the north."