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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
254 THE TERMS
They saw, however, no reason why the presence of a
resident agent in Lhasa should be a lasting source of
irritation. For more than eighty years we had now had
an agent at Khatmandu, a capital the isolation of which
from foreign intrusion had been guarded hardly less
jealously than that of Lhasa itself, and that by a people
whose prowess had been proved in our own armies. The
hostilities which preceded the first appointment of a
British Minister at Peking, under the treaty of 1860, were
also far more serious than any opposition which had so far
been encountered, or was likely to be met with, on the way
to Lhasa. The Government of India saw, then, no
reason to anticipate greater risk in placing a Resident at
Lhasa than was incurred in sending a British representa-
tive to Khatmandu or Peking.
Despite the hostility which, under the influence and
leadership of the monkish faction, they had displayed
against us, the Tibetan people had no dislike for us as a
race, and there was nothing in the tolerant Buddhist creed
which counselled hostility to strangers of a different faith
or encouraged fanaticism. The exclusion of British sub-
jects and Europeans was merely based on a concordat of
the present dominant class in Tibet, and was not in any
way a religious obligation. The monks were at present
opposed to us, fearing the loss of their influence, but their
antipathy was based on suspicion and ignorance, and with
tact and patience it might be eradicated—a view which
was supported by the friendly relations which the Mission
was able to establish at Khamba Jong with ecclesiastical
Envoys from the Tashi Lama of Shigatse.
It had always to be borne in mind that subjects of all
her other neighbours—China, Nepal, and Kashmir--were
allowed freely to resort to, and trade in, 'Tibet, while
China and Nepal had official representatives at Lhasa. As
at Khatmandu, our agent would, like the Nepal repre-
sentative at Lhasa, abstain from all interference with the
internal administration of the country, and would confine
himself to watching over our trade interests and in guard-
ing against the introduction of foreign influences. His
presence, therefore, at Lhasa would be in no sense a
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