... The palanquin was flanked by two magnificent ceremonial umbrellas, one of gold and one of peacock green. UNOPPOSED The new Dalai Lama has been elected unopposed, the ancient ceremony of drawing lots being dispensed with for the third time in history. He ...

... La-Mu-Tan-Chu, chosen Dalai Lama, supreme religious and civil ruler of Tibet, set out from the summer palace outside Lhasa for the famous Potala Palace. There, in this hill-top shrine of the Forbidden City,” he was enthroned 14th Dalai Lama, after the most ...

... WARDING OFF SPIRITS First came the Dalai Lama’s servants, carrying food and clothes to the Palace. They wore broad red tasselled hats, green tunics, and blue breeches. Men carrying banners to ward of evil spirits rode next, followed by High Lamas, the ...

... BRITAIN’S ENVOY The Regent, riding behind him, was a superb figure in gold robes, and the Dalai Lama’s parents and two brothers were with him. His father was to-day made a “kung,” or duke. The procession passed by the garden where the British Mission ...