According to a dispatch from Peking the Dalai Lams, the Buddhist pontiff of Tibet, whose return journey began in 1906 from Peking to Mount Potalé, near Lhasea, arrived in Taiyuan, capital of Shansi, on the 10th instant, after having made many roundabout digress sions. Mount Potalé is one of the three sacred mountains of this name, the original being situated, according to Buddhist legends, in India, and the third, known in Chinese by the name of Prat'oshan (Pootoo), forming the well-known island of monasteries on the coast of Chekiang province. The Dalai Lama was met by HE. Pao.Fén, Governor of Shansi, and other high officials three miles from the capital. After he had arrived in the Governor's yamen, a "welcome" reception was held. "The Dalai Lama is said to have acted with, great haughtiness contempt, and rodely took no notice of his Excelleney's reverential salutation. This priest wore on his breast a large gold medal, which was conferred upon p, him by His ty the Emperor. The pontiff left. Ts an mountains "to. reco health," but when he will leave Wat'ai-shan nobody knows. It is understood that he is not willing to return to his sacred city of Lhasa. It in said that the Dalai Lama has been in commaunication with Russia concerning Tibet; and in consequence of this statement the Peking Government has sent their Excellencies Lu Chuan-lin and Shao Ying to Shansi to find out if there is any trath in the report and to persuade him to retarn to Tibet, as H.E. Lien Yo, Imperial Resident in Lhassa, needs his help in reorganizing the internal administration of that dependency. It is estimated that the arrival of the Dalai Lama in Taiyuan and his short stay' there cost the provincial government several tens of thousands of taels.
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