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0459 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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LAMA LEAVES PEKING   385

favour was to be further accentuated by the grant to him

of a small personal allowance, also provided for in the

Decree.

The Decree laid down, too, that when he arrived in

Tibet, he was to carefully obey the laws and ordinances

of the sovereign State," and in all matters he was to

follow the established law of reporting to the Imperial

Resident ici 'Tibet." This, said our Minister, was the first

4   unequivocal declaration on the part of China that she

6   regarded Tibet as within her sovereignty, though in a con-

versation between Prince Chang and Sir Ernest Satow

the former had held that both land and people were

subject to China.

In preparing his expression of thanks for the honours

~!   conferred upon him, the Dalai Lama sought to improve

ai   his position by proposing that he should be able to

1   memorialize the 'Throne direct, instead of through the

Resident, but the Board of Dependencies refused to allow

him to do so.

s   The Dalai Lama left Peking on December 21 to pro-

ceed to Lhasa by way of Tung-kuan, Si-ngan, Lanchou,

ti   and Kumbun   that is, by the northern route, and not

through Szechuan, as the Chinese Residents always travel.

The day before his departure he sent two of his Coun-

cillors to Sir John Jordan to pay a visit of farewell on his

behalf. In addition to some presents of incense and other

articles for the Minister, they brought a hata " (scarf),

which they specially begged should be transmitted to His

Majesty the King-Emperor, with a message of respectful

greetings from His Holiness. The Councillors said that

the Dalai Lama's visit to Peking had been a useful educa-

tive influence to himself and his advisers, and had resulted,

they hoped, in the resumption of the time-honoured rela-

tions with China. It had also enabled them to ascertain

the views of His Majesty's Government with regard to

Tibet, and, after the assurances our Minister had given

them, they now went back thoroughly convinced that so

long as they faithfully carried out the terms of the recent

Convention, they could look forward with confidence to

the maintenance of friendly relations with His Majesty's

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