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BRITISH MINISTER VISITS LAMA 383

Emperor, he was to kneel on the Emperor's entrance and

departure.

Though the Russian and British Ministers worked in

consultation with one another in regard to visits to the

Dalai Lama, and agreed to communicate their intentions

informally to the Wai-wu-pu, the Chinese evidently did

not care to encourage these visits. The foreign Ministers

were informed that the Dalai Lama would receive the

members of their staffs on any day except Sunday,

between the hours of twelve and three, and that the intro-

duction would take place through the two Chinese officials

in attendance, one of whom was Chang Yin-t'ang, the

negotiator of the recent Anglo-Chinese Convention, and

the same official who had done so much in Tibet to stop

direct intercourse with us. This was obviously intended

to reduce intercourse with the Dalai Lama to the level of

commonplace Western functions, and to deprive him of

any further opportunity of ventilating his grievances to

the representatives of the foreign Powers. That the

Chinese should thus assert their claim to control the

external relations of Tibet was, perhaps, reasonable

enough, but our Minister thought it was open to doubt

whether their methods would, in the long-run, further

their interests in that dependency. Some Chinese were

already beginning to doubt whether the Pontiff's experi-

ence at Peking was likely to make him an active partisan

of Chinese policy on his return to Tibet.

Sir John Jordan visited the Dalai Lama on October 20,

at the Yellow Temple. On arrival he was received by

two Chinese officials, one of whom was the aforemen-

tioned Mr. Chang. After a considerable delay in the

waiting-room—whether due to Mr. Chang or to the Dalai

Lama is not mentioned—he was conducted to the

reception-hall, where he found the Dalai Lama seated

cross-legged on a yellow satin cushion, placed on an altar-

like table, about 4 feet high, which stood in a recess or

alcove draped in yellow satin. The Dalai Lama in

appearance was of the normal Tibetan type, thirty-five

years old, slightly pock-marked, with swarthy complexion,

a small black moustache, prominent and large dark brown

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