Motion-picture Operator's Rot iritic Experience: Living Buddha's Interest in the Men from Afar: Thought Koreans Could Walk under Water Wanird Chine te contribute The following account of a movie man's adventure ite: Bugene Lo Teder of the camera "ihe writer ie accompanied by Mra, Lamb, who has cheerfully and edition sent out by the Sino-Tibecan, Motion syceneala" encore al the harahipa of the journey to date, eud of following the rout of ths people along thie ancient highs ith the intention into the fortune to meet the caravan of the Panchan Lama, the Li ud Afr. Lamb tae suceesefud and even in inducing him to pose for @ picture Months ago there started _from Shanghai a little group of five—three foreigners and two Chinese. With them they carried many cases containing cameras and films, Their destination was Tibet. With the cameras and films they secretly hoped to bring Tibet back with them so that all the world could peer for an instant into the portals of that forbidden land. of stone stairs which lead to the top elevation and past two very startled looking sentries, at the main portals of his apartment His Holiness himself. The Kan Po spoke no Chinese, but a Tibetan interpreter stepped' forward _immediately and together we went to 'a small side room where I was com Their departure from the outset was made under difficulties. Hordes of bandits commanded the road over which they had to go to reach Ning Hsia, and only two days: prior to their leaving they had chatted with Father Van Praet, the Catholic Priest recently released by the bandits after days of captivity,
one days later, the party rode into hards) id privations, Twenty-Ning Hsia safe and sound, a little tired, covered with dust, but still "going to Tibet."
Trudging Across Gobi.
March and April found the five out on Gobi. The carts had given way to camels nov. In single file, they trudged across the great sand desert. No bandits here, but something worse, Sand, oceans of it. Towards each corner of the earth this endless sea stretched out, its surface Hike a tormented sea, and for a road, an almost invisible hint of camel tracks, left by the last curayan, To depart from this meant disaster, for only on this trail at intervals of two or three days may one find a meagre water supply; drawn from a shallow filthy hole, into which seeps the few drops which run beneath the surface.
May came with its awakening of life. The cold winter winds gave phoo to the sun, gentle showers swept the land lieu of the terrible dust pelled to take the seat of honour on the kang. For a full half hour we sat together discussing this and that, while attendants brought in a magnificent silver tea service mounted with bits of coral. Several platters of dainties were also produced, including a huge dish of rook candy which unfortunately I helped myself to only to discover that it was as hard as steel and totally beyond my ability to crush, Accordingly, Isat with a large lump of this concealed under my tongue and fervently prayed that sooner or later it would melt, dis storms which rage over this: country in winter and with this smile of spring upon them the party settled down in camp outside of Liang Chou, but a few score miles from the Tibetan border. And now came the great news. Liang Chow fairly hummed with strange tales and gossip, for the Living Buddh the Pan Chen Rinpoche was fleeing from Ta Haidumpo, his official idence and would shortly pass through Ling Chaa on his way to China.
Days passed Now it was heard that the Great "Fo Yeh" had rived at Hsu Chou, no, ho wai ready in Kanchow.' But he was to pass through "Hangchow. That Was sufficient, Five men lugged at tent stakes, and they were off to intersect the course of the Panchan Lama and to "shoot" him. Two ays later, beneath the very temple window through which the Buddha would gaze while resting in Liang-chou, two white tents were pitched. The ground about was strewn with eases, cameras, saddles, provisions /—the endless paraphernalia which. oes to make up a far interior camp. And on an overturned ease a man sat, and deliberated, and wondered where he could get_a copy of the atest text book on "How to obtain interview with a Living Buddha," never thinking that in the and he would have to write that ook himself.
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