MISSION IN THIBET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 233, 6 October 1904, Page 2

MISSION IN THIBET.

HICTI UNlNti AM 111 SEUIOI'S HAW IS I Ill'S. AN LS'CO.YII'LK TKICATV. BOMBAY, Oct. 4. TYiC mission has recrossod the Kurola. It hus encounteiod grout hanlsllips. 'J'lie Ainban has not yet b<vn authorised to sign the treaty. (Itcceiml Oct. 'J.4U p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 5. The India Ollice announces that the Tlrilx't Convention still awaits ratification by Lord Cur/on, the Viceroy. The terms of tl»' agreement, it wus I'ui-l!n r stuleil, l.uw not yet been In.. !'v settled. AIAIIAT... .S Of THIBET. Thibet has for many centuries been regarded as a. sent of occult learning. Household Words lias an interesting article on the question whether the British expedition will lind out the truth about thu t'artamed Alaluitmu». It su,\s:— "Tliibelan pedlars luive allinned over and over again that, living in the mountains near thu city of Lhasr sa, there are men possessing exU'aordinary powers distinct from and far higher than the oixlijuiry Lojmas of the country. These men cure the ■ ick by giving them to eat rice which they cruwh out of the paddy with their hands, «n/l perform many ot.lier rem«rkable feats. We are told that a young llengali in 188:! testified iK'fore a lUimlier of respectable witnesses that, while travelling in Thibet, in the neighbourhood of tho Lake of Aranosuruwara, lie met one of these men, accompanied by a number of Chelas, or pupils. The master diluted him, and finding th u t he had nothing to eat, gave him some ground grain and tea ; us the Bengali hmd no meajia of obta ning lire the. master cul'lud for some fuel, mid kindled it by simply Mowing on it with his mouth. He also cured a shepherd who was brought to him suffering from rheumatic fever, then anil there, by giving him a few grains of rjco crushed out of paddy, which he had in his haJUI." European theosophists have testilied to similar wonderful fents, and Colonel Younghusband jnay, tho writer thinks, be able to throw some light on the matter now that he has reached Lhassa.