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NEW DALAI LAMA DF TIBET FIVE-YEAR-OLD PEASANT PROCLAIMED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyngtu CHUNGKING, July 20. (Received July 21, at 10 a.m.) A five-year-old peasant has been proclaimed the fourteenth Dalai Lama. He was found in the tiny village of Taherhzhe in the Koko Nor Province, China, and sent to Lhasa. [The late Dalai Lama died at Lhasa in December, 1933, at the age of 60. When a Dalai Lama dies Tibetans believe that his spirit passes to the body of his successor, born at the exact moment when he died. _Koko Nqr is a district of Tibet, and is administered by Chinese officials separately from the remainder of Tibet.]
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Evening Star, Issue 23324, 21 July 1939, Page 9
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