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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
BHUTANESE AGGRESSION 5
Fortunately there was at the head of affairs the greatest,
though the most maligned, of all the Governors-General
of India, who was able to turn to profit the advantages
accruing from the sacrifices which had been made.
Fortunately, too, in those days a Governor-General still
had some power and initiative left, and was able, without
interminable delays, debates, correspondence, and inter-
national considerings, to act decisively and strongly before
the psychological moment had passed.
Warren Hastings resisted the aggression of the Bhu-
tanese, and drove them back from the plains of Bengal into
their own mountains ; but when the Tashi Lama of 'Tibet
interceded on their behalf, he at once not only acceded,
but went further, and made a deliberate effort to come into
permanent relationship with both the Bhutanese and
Tibetans. Nor did he think he would gain lasting results
by any fitful effort. He knew well that to achieve any-
thing effort must be long, must be continuous, and must
be persistent, and that the results would be small at first,
but, accumulating in the long process of years, would
eventually amount to what was of value.
The Bhutanese, I have said, when they found them-
selves being sorely punished for their aggression, appealed
to the 'Tashi Lama of Tibet to intercede for them with
the Governor of Bengal ; and the Tashi Lama, who was
then acting as Regent of Tibet during the infancy of the
Dalai Lama, wrote to Warren Hastings a very remark-
able letter, which is quoted both by Turner and Markham,
and which is especially noteworthy as marking that the
intercourse between us and the Tibetans was started by
the Tibetans. The Tibetans have stated on many a
subsequent occasion to the Government of India, and on
innumerable occasions to myself, that they are not per-
mitted to have intercourse with us. But originally, and
when they wanted a favour from us, the intercourse was
started by themselves, and in a very reasonable, dignified,
and neighbourly manner.
The Tashi Lama wrote to Warren Hastings, after
various compliments : " Neither to molest nor to perse-
cute is my aim. . . . But in justice and humanity I
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