Chungking, Feb. 20.
The enthronement of the new Dalai Lama, on February 22, will strengthen the ties betwen Chungking and Lhasa, it is considered by Chinese circles here.
The boy Dalai Lama was found near the Taerssu lamaist centre in Kokonor province, but owing to initial dimeulties in getting the boy to proceed to Lhasa, the Tibetan Re-{gent announced that two other candidates had been discovered.
According to usual practice, a new Dalai Lama is chosen by the drawing of lots from a golden urn, presented by the Emperor Chien Lung, 150 years ago. When General Wu Chung-hsin, Chairman of the Tibetan-Mongolian Affairs Commission of the Chinese National Government, arrived in Lhasa, however, he is said immediately to have conferred with the Tibetan Regent, with the result that an agreement was reached to do away with the lot-drawing ceremony, and to appoint the boy from Kokonor as the new Dalai Lama.
This agreement was confirmed by the Tungdo, or National Assembly of ecclesiastical and lay officials, as well as abbots of three of the largest monasteries in Tibet. Chinese circles are said to hail this decision as an important development in Chinese end Tibetan relations—Reuter.
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