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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
THE GURU DISASTER 179
awing him, a fanatical Lama from Lhasa. Ignorant and
arrogant, this priest herded the superstitious peasantry to
destruction. It is only fair to assume that, somewhere in
the depths of his nature, he felt that the people's religion
was in danger, and that he was called upon to preserve it.
But blind fear of the danger which he believed threatened
was so combined with overweening confidence, and there
was such a lack of effort to avert the supposed danger by
reasonable means, as might so easily have been done, that
he simply brought disaster on his country, and, poor man,
paid the penalty of his unreasonableness with his life.
What to me is so sad is that now, when the Lamas have
discovered their errors and are imploring our aid, we can
do so little to befriend them.
After the action, General Macdonald ordered the whole
of the medical staff to attend the wounded Tibetans.
Everything that with our limited means we could do
for them was done. Captains Davies, Walton, Baird,
Franklin and Kelly, devoted themselves to their care. A
rough hospital was made at Tuna. And the Tibetans
showed great gratitude fôr what we did, though they failed
to understand why we should try to take their lives one day
and try to save them the next. We had been in some
anxiety regarding a second body of Tibetans, 2,000 strong,
on the opposite side of the lake, but these, on hearing of
the disaster near Guru, retreated ; and on April 5 we
resumed our march in the direction of Gyantse, the ther-
mometer, even thus in April, showing 23 degrees of frost
on the morning we started.
I now received a letter, dated March the 27th, from
the Resident, who said he was most anxious to hasten to
meet me, and had seen the Dalai Lama, but difficulties
arose over transport, which he was unwilling to grant."
After considering all this, he had come to the conclusion
that Tibetan politics were those of drift ; that Chinese
officials were too engrossed in self-seeking, and hence the
Tibetans shirked action. But a quarrel on his part with
the Dalai Lama would only mar matters, so he would
go on " and perform his share of the duties allotted to
him; and he had decided to write a succinct report to
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