But why should they reject it? So many millions of taels were accounted for by so many billions of prayers. Prayer with the Tibetans was a comparatively easy performance. Praying without much exertion, they got through five hundred words per minute; praying without exertion they performed one million prayers per minute. The Tibetans prayed everywhere and prayed without ceasing. When their tsamba was thus 60 easily earned, why reject the generosity of China and put themselves out of empl ment? The new Republic of China was still prepared to grant them, as far as possible, what they enjoyed under the old Government. The Tibetans absolutely refused this, de. clared their Independence, and gathered a large army together to Tibetans. Tibet was entirely independent of outside assistance. Her temples and lamaseries were exceedingly wealthy and well provided for. Among her people there were no poor. The Lama and the Nomad, the Nomad and the Lama; if you were not one, then you were the other; neither were poor, Tibet did not want China's wealth, she had abundance of her own. She had sufficient gold to cover the immense domes of her large temples; she had sufficient precious stones to decorate her huge idols; she had sufficient bronze to make her countless images. As a religious country Tibet was by no means a poor one. The Lamaistic devotes carried all his wealth with him to the lamasery; When he died he left it there. In this' way many of the lamaseries became exceedingly wealthy.
China's generosity and China's suzerainty were only tolerated in Tibet. Exotio rule very seldom euch ceeds where there is a patriotic spirit. The burst for freedom and liberty will come sooner or later. The slowly burning embers of patriotism very rarely end in smoke. If waited for long enough, an opfortune moment will certainly come; the opportunity came and Tibet took it. The man they dreaded most and afterwards _worshipped, was out of the country. HE. Chan caused the last reign of terror in Tibet; from him the Dalai Lama fled in abject terror to the Indian border. With his removal came the Chinese Revolution and Tibet's one and only glorious opportunity.
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