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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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LETTER FROM DALAI LAMA 243
interview of July 27, again came to visit me. He explained
that the Chamberlain had returned to Lhasa to report
personally to the Dalai Lama the result of his interview
with me, and he hoped that I would wait here till the
reply of the Dalai Lama should reach me. I informed
him that I could not wait here longer than the 31st, that
it was not our custom to act in a dilatory manner, and
that I was indeed daily expecting a telegram from the
Viceroy asking me for an explanation of the delay which
had already occurred.
During the interview, which lasted three hours, the
conversation was of a discursive nature, as the Ta Lama
clearly had no power even to discuss anything else than
our advance to Lhasa. I gathered that what he and the
other delegates, and probably also the Dalai Lama himself,
feared was the turbulence of the war party among the
monks of the three great monasteries, leading to some
futile collision with our troops which would not have the
slightest effect in stopping us, but which would merely
irritate us into sacking Lhasa. Probably what the Dalai
Larva's party also feared was that these same turbulent
monks might turn upon the Dalai Lama himself and
make away with him.
I told the Ta Lama that I considered it a great pity
that he and the other able councillors who had recently
met me had not come to Khamba Jong, for the Secretary
of Council who had met Mr. White and me there had not
comported himself in at all a conciliatory manner ; he had,
in fact, irritated us considerably, and made a peaceful
settlement impossible. This surprised me the more
because the Chinese Government had informed the
Viceroy that the Dalai Lama had agreed to Khamba
Jong as the meeting-place where negotiations should take
place.
The Ta Lama replied that what the Dalai Lama
meant was the Khamba boundary, not Khamba Jong.
I told him that this was hardly intelligible, as the Khamba
boundary was along the top of mountains. We clearly
could not sit on the top of a mountain and negotiate : we
had to meet on either the one side or the other, and as the
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