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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
INTERVIEW WITH REGENT 273
here, to explain them to them. I had now been ten days
at Lhasa ; they had not yet come to talk to me about
them ; and I had heard from the Resident that, so far from
showing any inclination to agree with them, they had
written about them in very impertinent terms. They
must not be surprised, therefore, that my patience was
exhausted. The terms which I had shown them were
issued by command of the British Government, and no
reference to His Excellency the Viceroy would have the
slightest effect in modifying them.
The next day I had a much more interesting interview.
The Ti Rimpoche himself came to see me. He was the
Chief Doctor of Divinity and Metaphysics of Tibet, and
was an old and much respected Lama, to whom the Dalai
Lama had left his seals of office and whom he had
appointed Regent. He remembered seeing Huc and Gabet
as a boy, and he was a cultured, pleasant-mannered,
amiable old gentleman, with a kindly, benevolent expres-
sion. He was accompanied by the Nepalese representa-
tive, and brought with him a present of gold-dust and
some silk from the Dalai Lama's brother.
After some polite observations, he asked me whether
we English believed in reincarnation. I said we believed
that when we died our bodies remained here and our souls
went up to heaven. He said that that might happen
to the good people, but where did the bad people go to ?
I replied that we had no bad : we were all good. He
laughed, and said that, at any rate, he hoped that both of
us would be good during this negotiation. 'Then we
might both go to heaven. I said I had not the smallest
doubt that we should.
He then said he would have liked to come and see me
before, but was afraid of the Sha-pés. He told me how he
had been hastily summoned by the Dalai Lama a few weeks
ago, but on his arrival had found the Dalai Lama had fled.
He had greatly disliked taking up political business, for
he had spent his whole life in religious study, and was
altogether ignorant of the methods of public affairs. But
the Sha-pés and people in the palace had given him a
message from the Dalai Lama, handing over the Dalai
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