The Archive · 1904

The Dalai Lama in Peking

A private dispatch from the capital rsthe arrival of the Dalai Lama in having come from Haining, Kansu province, whither he had fied from British ition. The Buddhist Pontiff Uhassx upon the approach there of the entered Peking on the 17th ultimo, riding in a large sedan chair covered with yellow satin and carried by sixteen bearers. He was escorted by some five hundred Lama priests belonging to the great Lama temple eking, where he is at present residing.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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