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... THE MYSTERIOUS MONARCH-THE DALAI LAMA OF TIBET We give here the first photograph that has ever been taken of the Dalai Lama of Tibet in his state robes--that mysterious ruler of an extensive country (about 650,000 square miles) who until recently had ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Advance of the Mission to Tibet

... on his first arrival, but Dalai Lama refused him transport. He now intends to come and meet me as soon as possible. In view of Tibetan obstinacy he says there is no help for it, but we must go to Gyangtse, though Dalai Lama has written to him that we ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1904
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 666 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE SON OF HEAVEN IN THE SADDLE IN CHINA

... in the old days. One is prone to think of The Son of Heaven as sitting aloof in his palace at Pekin, a kind of sacrosanct Dalai Lama, too august to meddle in the detailryof cam paigning. But, more often than not, the em peror himself played in war fare ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 701 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations