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0335	India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1

0335

India and Tibet : vol.1

インドとチベット : vol.1

INTERVIEW WITH CHINESE RESIDENT 271

several occasions during the recent fighting gone round

the dead Tibetans, and invariably found that they were

peasants. A Lama was never seen. If we could be quite

sure that the originators of all this fighting would fight

themselves, I was not sure that we would have been so

ready to suspend hostilities.

Before the close of his visit I asked the Amban if the

it Nepalese and Kashmiris kept on good terms with the

Tibetans here. He replied that they got on well enough

with the ordinary people, but avoided the Lamas, as contact

with them was liable to lead to trouble. He added that

the Nepalese representative had been ordered by the

4 Prime Minister of Nepal to advise the Tibetans to be

reasonable and come to a settlement with us, and to tell

!i them that the British respected the religion of others and

t1f would not interfere with theirs. I said I had heard of

iC this, and if the Tibetans had only followed this good

bi advice, which was given a year ago, we might have settled

up everything at Khamba Jong. What the Prime

ki Minister of Nepal had said about the tolerance of other

i, religions was perfectly true. We had many millions of

I Buddhists under our rule, about 200,000,000 Hindus, and

4 70,000,000 Mohammedans. The 'Tibetan fear that we

II would interfere with their religion was altogether un-

i founded. The Amban replied that they were so jealous

of their religion that they tried to prevent even Chinese

Buddhists of other sects from their own from entering

Tibet.

On August 13 two Sha-pés, the Dalai Lama's private

Abbot, a Secretary of Council, and the Accountant-

General paid me a formal visit. I remarked that the

Amban had told me that they had drawn up a document

which they had presented to him as a reply to our terms,

r but which was so impertinent that the Amban had said he

could not even mention it to me officially. The deputa-

tion replied that they were really anxious to make a settle-

ment, and the document they had presented to the

Amban merely represented their views, and was not

intended as a reply to me. Their idea was to give the

Amban their opinion, and he would give orders upon it.

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