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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
PERSISTENCE OF WARREN HASTINGS 27
influence of personalities that the death of these two men,
who had conceived such a real respect and affection
for one another, was an almost fatal blow to Warren
Hastings' plans for the improvement of the relationship
between Tibet and India. Nevertheless, he kept steadily
on with his deliberate policy, and watched for some other
opportunity of carrying it to fruition. Persistency of aim
and watchfulness for opportunities, making the most of
the occasion offered, and decisiveness of action—these were
always Hastings' guiding principles. So when, in Feb-
ruary, 1782, news reached Calcutta that the Tashi Lama,
in accordance with the Tibetan ideas of reincarnation,
had reappeared in the person of an infant, he resolved
to send another mission to Tibet to congratulate the
Regent.
For this duty he selected Captain Samuel Turner, an
officer who had distinguished himself at the Siege of
Seringapatam and on a mission to Tippoo Sultan, and
who was then thirty-three years of age.
Turner himself was very favourably received at
Shigatse, and at his first interview informed the Regent
that Warren Hastings had an earnest solicitude to
preserve and cultivate the amicable intercourse that had
so happily commenced between them ; that this corre-
spondence, in its earliest stages, had been dictated by the
purest motives of humanity, and had hitherto pointed with
unexampled sincerity and steadiness towards one great
object, which constituted the grand business of the Tashi
Lama's life peace and universal good ; that the Governor-
General, whose attention was always directed towards the
same pursuits, was overwhelmed with anxiety lest the
friendship which had been established between himself
and the Regent might undergo a change, and he had
therefore sent a trusted agent to convey his congratulations
on the joyful reappearance in the world of the late 'Tashi
Lama, and to express the hope that everything that was
expected would at length be effectually accomplished.
rib this the Regent replied that the present and the
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