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0293 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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DISCUSSION REGARDING RELIGION 241

The British Government had spent a considerable amount

of money in clearing away forests, and the town in which

Buddha was born was actually discovered. W e did not

believe that every religion except our own was wrong. On

the contrary, we believed that the same God whom we all

worshipped could be approached by many diffèrent roads,

and we were ready to respect those who were travelling to

the same destination, though by a different road to that

which we ourselves were following.

The delegates expressed their satisfaction that we

should have studied their religion, but the conversation

soon returned to the more pressing question of our advance

to Lhasa. The Chamberlain was the most sensible,

practical man we had so far met, and I was specially polite

to him, as in the event of the flight or murder of the

~t Dalai Lama he might be a possible Regent. But even he

had evidently very little power, and while he was nervous

throughout the interview, was clearly more nervous of his

own people than of us.

After the interview had lasted three and a half hours, I

ie asked them to report my words to the Dalai Lama, and I

ô~ told them that I should be very glad to see them again

W'! whenever they liked, either to discuss further official

business, or, putting official matters aside, to pay me a

friendly private visit. 'l'hey took one of my 'Tibetan

Munshis with them, and gave him a special present of silk

it for Captain O'Connor, and also told the Munshi that the

Yi man who had brought all this trouble on Tibet was the

Tung-yig-Chembo (the Chief Secretary), who was at

Khamba Jong, Gyantse, and Nagartse, but who was not

present at this interview. It was satisfactory to find that

{ two such influential men as the Chamberlain and the

yi Ta Lama had discovered this, and I thought that if the

man was now cast aside, our chance of getting on terms of

I friendship with high Tibetan officials would be vastly

increased.

I now accepted the silk which the Dalai Lama had sent

me through the Tongsa Penlop, but which I had at the time

refused to accept unless accompanied by a letter or handed

to me by one of the Dalai Lama's own officials. The

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