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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
320 IMPRESSIONS AT LHASA
quite acknowledged, but when they considered that these
same Englishmen annexed other people's lands to their
own dominions, their favourable opinion received a shock,
and they explained this to themselves by supposing that
there must be two different kinds of Englishmen in
India—one benevolent and godly, and the other infernal
and quite wicked."
The Dalai Lama, who, though very anxious to clear
away all corruption from the Buddhism of 'Tibet, was
richer in thoughts political than religious," feared the
British, and was always thinking how to keep us out of
Tibet. The reason why he, who was at first as timid as
a hare towards England, should become suddenly as bold as
a lion," was that he had a secret treaty with Russia, which
he believed to be the only country in the world strong
enough to thwart England. Kawaguchi then proceeds to
relate how Dorjieff virtually monopolized the confidence
of the young Lama, how he brought gold and curios from
Russia and liberal donations to all the monasteries, and
even a Bishop's robe from the Czar for the Dalai Lama.
He tells how Dorjieff wrote a pamphlet showing that the
Czar was an incarnation of one of the founders of
Lamaism, and how the Tibetans came to believe that the
Czar would sooner or later subdue the whole world and
found a gigantic Buddhist Empire. He mentions, too,
how one day after Dorjieff's return he saw a caravan of
200 camels, and that he was told they conveyed rifles and
bullets, and that 300 camel-loads had already arrived, and
the Tibetans were then elated, and said that now for the
first time Tibet was sufficiently armed to resist any attack
which England might make, and could defiantly reject any
improper request."
These rifles were of American manufacture, and, I
believe through neglect, got so completely out of order
that the Tibetans were only able to use very few against
us. We have the assurance of the Russian Government,
too, that no agreement was made with Tibet. But these
observations of the Japanese form a remarkable corrobora-
tion of the reports we had heard as to the mischief done
by Dorjieff's proceedings.
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