BOY DALAI LAMA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20009, 7 August 1939, Page 14

BOY DALAI LAMA

DISCOVERY IN FAR CHINA UNCERTAINTY OF FUTURE CHUNGKING, July 25. The five-year-old peasant boy who has been proclaimed the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet was found in the tiny village o-f Taherhzhe, in the Ko’konor province of China, and has been taken to Lhasa (Tibet). The boy is described as bright and intelligent, and as according with the late Dalai Lama’s conditions: A dream that the next Dalai, Lama would be found among a sitrangelyappareUsd mixed race led the searchers to a tribesman's cave 500 miles from Lhasa. The search occupied three years, after which the boy was examined' for two, years. He is said to have shown a “true reincarnation” and to possess a dignity and serenity He .--peaks Mandarin Chinese. The boy faces an uncertain future, for most of iris .predecessors have died mysteriously before manhood. They are believed to have been poisoned by the Tibetan Cabinet, which thus preserves its powers. It is thought that the Chinese are likely to endeavour to reassert their influence in Tibet.