The Dalai Lama reached the end of his 2½-months' journey to Lhasa this morning, after resting two nights at Rigya. The procession enclosing the yellow palanquin rode through streets lined with monks holding banners and auspicious emblems. The villagers were dressed in bright colours as dancers and musicians. Every window was shut and curtained, for no one should look from above upon the Dalai Lama. A band of Officials wearing the dress of the old kings of Tibet were conspicuous by their rich brocade, by enormous circular ornaments on their chests, and by their earrings of turquoise over a foot long. Golden incense-burners and silk-wrapped bundles of the D; alai Lama's clothing were carried past on horses. The Regent rode behind the palanquin on a richly caparisoned canopy.
As the middle of the procession reached the south entrance of the cathedral it was met by the Oracle of Nechung in a state of possession. A god who acts as guardian of religion is said to enter into him, and when he is so possessed he dances with convulsive movements, bending his body fiercely to the ground, forwards and backwards. He wears a high head-dress of white plumes over a golden crown, and brandishes a sword and a bow. This terrible figure rushed to the Dalai Lama's palanquin and thrust in his head so that the spirit in him could do reverence. There had been some apprehension that the sight would frighten the child, but it is said that he was quite unperturbed.
When the Oracle had withdrawn the procession went on to the west door of the cathedral, by which the Dalai Lama entered to visit the shrine, 11 centuries old, in which is kept the Jowo Rimpochhe, an image of Buddha said to have been brought from China by a wife of King Song-tsen Gampo, who first established Buddhism in Tibet, THE DALAI LAMA.—The four-year-old peasant child from the distant Chinese province of Siling, who has returned with traditional ceremony to Lhasa as the fourteenth Dalai Lama.
After a short rest the Dalai Lama was carried down in the large gilded palanquin over which waved an umbrella of peacocks' feathers and one of yellow silk, to receive homage in the Peacock Tent. There he was seated on the throne. After making three prostrations before him the officials, headed by the Regent, began to file past, offering white silk scarves and receiving his blessing. The stream, which included British, Nepalese, and Chinese representatives, and Lhasa Moslems, poured past the throne for almost an hour, while the Dalai Lama, wearing yellow brocade and a yellow peaked fur hat, sat solemnly and with dignity holding out his hands to touch the heads of the worshippers. The stately Lord Chamberlain of his household, standing ona high step beside the throne, watched the proceedings; and in front of After a short time the procession left the city of Lhasa and entered the Norbhu Lingka, a large walled park containing. the several summer palaces of the Dalai Lama. In the oldest of these a reception ceremony was held, and a short performance of dances was given by the Dalai Lama's dancing boys. Finally the Dalai Lama withdrew for a well-deserved rest after more than six hours of ceremony.
He will probably not have to take part in any further ceremonies for at least a "month, after which his hair will be cut as a sign of his formal initiation into the Buddhist Church. His calm assurance during the exacting two days of his entry into Lhasa has been a source of wonder and delight to the people of Tibet and has confirmed their trust in the reincarnation.
PREPARING FOR THE ARRIVAL of the Dalai Lama. Part of the procession on its way to the Rigya Monastery, where the Dalai Lama on arrival rested for a while before being carried to the Peacock Tent,
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