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gold palanquin drawn by ropes held

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CEREMONIAL UMBRELLAS

... yellow hats. The palanquin was flanked by two great ceremonial umbrellas, one in gold, the other in peacock green. The new Dalai Lama is Ling-Erh La- Mu-Tan-Chu, or Ling-Erh, and he is being enthroned as supreme lord spiritual and temporal of the estimated ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 132 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CARRIED IN A GOLDEN

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Musical Introduction

... play—“ Valentine,” in 1918. BRITISH GIFTS FOR DALAI LAMA « Gold And Silver Offerings Lhassa (Tibet), Monday.—Gifts, which included a silk scarf, a bar of gold, and bags of silver, were presented to the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s new boy ruler, on behalf of the British ...

Published: Tuesday 27 February 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 311 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LAND OF LEGENDS NEW DELHI, Thursday

... LAND OF LEGENDS NEW DELHI, Thursday The new child Dalai Lama was gently aroused shortly after dawn, to-day, for the most eventful day that Lhasa, the forbidden city M —has known for perhaps sixty years. He was brought to the Potala Palace, in the heart ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 190 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Colourful Drama In Land Of Legends CHILD DALAI

... Colourful Drama In Land Of Legends CHILD DALAI LAMA Brilliant Scenes At Lhasa TIBET’S NEW RULER Pageantry In The “Forbidden City” ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 21 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WARDING OFF SPIRITS

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LAND OF MYTHS

... LAND OF MYTHS The land over which the new Dalai Lama is supreme lord is a one of myths and legends, peculiar habits and customs, snow-clad mountains, gorges, towering cliffs, and tiny valleys, and of a secluded people obsessed by superstition, but who ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BRITAIN’S ENVOY

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 295 | Page: 3 | Tags: none