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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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
240 THE ADVANCE TO LHASA
standings which led to the present troubles if we had had
a representative at Lhasa and they had had one in
Calcutta. We knew, however, their aversion to keeping a
British agent at Lhasa ; we were not, therefore, pressing
the point, and were only insisting upon having trade
agents at Gyantse and other marts. 'There would, how-
ever, in any case, have been no reason for other foreigners
establishing an agent at Lhasa. Russia had declared that
she had no intention of sending an agent to Tibet. The
delegates replied that our establishing an agent even at
Gyantse would be against their custom, and spoil their
religion. I said that I understood, then, that they were not
prepared even now to agree to our terms, and they
informed me that they were only authorized to discuss
them, and they would have to be considered in the
National Assembly. You expect me, then," I said, to
remain out here in a half-desert place discussing terms. I
have already remained for months together in desert
places in Tibet, and can now negotiate in no other place
than Lhasa." I begged the Chamberlain as a practical
man to accept this as inevitable, and to turn his mind now
to insuring that there should be no more useless blood-
shed on the way, and that we should be enabled by the
speedy conclusion of the settlement to leave Lhasa at an
early date.
Before closing the interview, I had some conversation
with the delegates on the general question of intercourse
between Tibet and India. I said that we should be very
glad if they would more frequently accept the hospitality
we were always ready to offer them in India. They would
find that in India they could travel wherever they liked,
and would everywhere be protected and welcomed. They
would see, too, that though we were Christians we not
only tolerated but protected Buddhists, Hindus, and
Mohammedans. We even spent large sums of money in
preserving ancient buildings of other religions. In this
camp was an officer, Colonel Waddell, who had spent his
life in studying the Buddhist religion, and while reading
the ancient books had discovered instructions indicating
exactly where the birthplace of Buddha could be found.
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