The Archive · 1936

The Dalai Lama

The Regent of Tibet has seen a vision at the holy lake and it hoped that it will tead to the discovery of the new Dalai Lama in succession to the potentate who died in December 1938. The vision revealed words which have been taken {fo Indicate the name of the mother of the child as Kamatso, the wife of a man in the region of Amdo near Jyekundo, according to a Reuter message from Darjeeling. This woman was discovered by the Pan chen Lama during a ceremony of tha Carnival of Purifieation at Jyekundo, the birthplace of the founder of the Yellow Sect. She was holding a two= year old child in her arms' and, ae-cording to a loiter written by the Panchen Lama to the Tibetan Government, she approached his beard. and later caught hold of his body. This information was being consider: ed by the Tibetan Government at the end of June and it is thought that the chiid will now be put to the further necessary steps with the view of finally ascertaining whether he 1s, the Dalai Lama, "Sir Charles Bell, commenting in The Times" on this news, says that if precedent followed, State oracles will issue prophecies and high lamas will resort divination:— ing 4 vision inthe "road. of Sieep te na "dream, Tne vbten may shew the "house in which arena ive and the tees round ft, tHe Sear of birth of one'or both patents other nung eign, And ths ashi (Panchen) Lamar the Nghe Tam ofall shoutd tao a large share, 1 is not certain that this procedure will be followed for therd are "ai criles Sir Charles points out State oracle of Netchung is In diss

latter's last illness, ae te, ama, the wrong medicine da Orel having. Sven the late Dalai

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