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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
DALAI LAMA'S MISSION TO RUSSIA .69
visit, which had, however, no official character whatever,
although he was accompanied on this visit by other
Tibetans.
But, in spite of this declaimer, Dorjieff was still styled
an Envoy Extraordinary, and the Messager Officiel of
June 25 (July 8, 1901) had the announcement that ,his
Majesty the Emperor had received on June 23, in the
Grand Palace at Peterhof, the Envoy Extraordinary from
the Dalai Lama of Tibet. And as the Russian press
announced that the Envoys had paid visits to Count
Lamsdorff and M. Witte, Sir Charles Scott, the British
Ambassador, took an opportunity at an interview with
Count Lamsdorff of ascertaining some further particulars.*
The latter said that, although the Tibetan visitors had
been described as Envoys Extraordinary of the Dalai
Lama, their mission could not be regarded as having any
political or diplomatic character. The mission was of the
same character as those sent by the Pope to the faithful
in foreign lands. Dorjieff had some post of confidence in
the Dalai Lama's service, but Count Lamsdorff believed
that he still maintained his original Russian nationality.
He had brought the Count an autograph letter from the
Dalai Lama, but this letter merely expressed a hope that
Count Lamsdorff was in the enjoyment of good health
and was prosperous, and informed him that the Dalai
was able to say that he himself enjoyed excellent health.
These proceedings naturally enough attracted the
attention of the Secretary of State for India, who on
July 25 pointed out to the Foreign Office t that the Dalai
Lama had recently refused to receive the communications
addressed to him by the Viceroy, and that while the
Viceroy was thus treated with discourtesy a mission was
publicly sent to Russia, and the publicity given to the
Tibetan Mission which had recently arrived in St. Peters-
burg could not fail to engender some disquietude in the
minds of the Indian Government as to the object and
result of any negotiations which might ensue. The
Secretary of State for India suggested, therefore, that
our Ambassador should be instructed to inform Count
* Blue-book, p. 117. t Ibid., p. 123.
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