Nationalism has something up its sleeve and Tibetan sleeves are notor= tously spacious. The Tibetan Nation list Party is merely another form of pride and ambition and" the young men who are advocating it are some: What ashamed of the backward condition of their country. Why not For nearly 1,000 years, or from the days of Songdzen Gambo and Tresong Dedzen, the wealth of Tibet steadily flowed towards the lam: series, and stilt continues 10 do s0. The young party desires to turn the material current from spiritual to political ends and use the wealth which they now consider as "being wasted in useless and unprofitable superstition towards the building up of a modern Stale. The lama regards the aspirations and ambitions of the young party as mere Zeitgeist with the world, mot heaven, "as. their objective, and therefore diametrically land eternally opposed to each other The young Tibetan political has set his mind very firmly on the things which are seen and temporal while the lama is gazing steadily at the things which are unseen and eternal, And therein is the crux of the whole question.
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