The Archive · 1937

Lamas Search District

Beginning last year, it is reported, scores of Yellow Lama priests have been sent to various districts in Chinghai to find their child leader. They commenced their search in Antuho, Jihtsungkeh, Hami League and Kalkal, taking alms and giving Buddhist sermons on the way. Sev-feral months of travel however, failed bring them to their goal, the reincarnated Dalai Lama. Some of the priests were so worried by their lack Jot success that upon their arrival in new place, they kowtowed, repeated their' Buddhist chants' and prayed for immediate divine revela~ tion as to the whereabouts of the coming Living Buddh:

Tt was not until they travelled another thousand miles that they arrived in a pasture land in Hashihba district in Chinghai, where in a rich family they found their reincarnated leader The discovery, an infant idly {wo years old, answered the Jdescription given by the Into Dalai Lama,

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