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0182 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
India and Tibet : vol.1 / 182 ページ(カラー画像)

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148   KHAMBA JONG t

jects, and with the prospect that then seemed near of

their absorbing Mongolia, and so possessing still more

Buddhist subjects, would be sensitive of our acquiring a

predominant influence with the Dalai Lama. But that is

scarcely a reason why we should not take measures to

counteract an influence which was already, and in hard

fact proving, detrimental to our own interests by en-

couraging the Tibetans in the belief that they could with

impunity ignore their treaty obligations. The Russian

Government had no intention of sending an agent to

Lhasa. Nevertheless, there was in Lhasa all the time a

Russian subject who had more influence over the Dalai

Lama than the Chinese Resident. When such was the

condition of affairs, we could hardly defer to Russia in a

matter concerning a country adjoining our frontier, but

nowhere adjoining hers.

Just as the move to Khamba Jong a dozen miles

inside the Tibetan frontier was most amply justified, so

also was the move to Gyantse, halfway to the capital.