MISSIONARY’S POST
Tlic Buddhist religion acknowledges two rulers in Central Asia who are regarded as sacred. There is the Dalai Lama living at Lhasa, Tibet, and the Living Buddha living at Urga, in Mongolia. A good deal of interest is being felt in Sweden just now because a former Swedish missionary, Mr Laysson, is acting as official adviser to the Living Buddha. . When Mr Larssou went as a missionary long ago ho was stationed at Kalgan, the frontier town between China and'Mongolia, on the overland trade route between Peking and Siberia. At the time of the Boxer rising in 1900 he crossed the Gobi Desert to Urga, in Northern Mongolia, and after long settlement there he has gained great influence. So much was this felt that when (he Mongolians rose in revolution against China in 1913 he acted as peacemaker for both sides. • Now Mr Larsson is engaged in business as a merchant at Urga, and is said to have won (he confidence of (he Living Buddha so completely that he is his accepted adviser. and the Living Buddha has given him a title, translated as duke.
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Evening Star, Issue 20194, 6 June 1929, Page 13
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187MISSIONARY’S POST Evening Star, Issue 20194, 6 June 1929, Page 13
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