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0272 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 / Page 272 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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Tsongkapa present new theories of control. If
Luther, while insisting upon better morals among
churchmen, had, for furthering that end, set up a
northern Papacy, he would have more nearly dupli-
cated the work of his predecessor, dead a century
before the beginning of the great struggle between
mighty pope and simple priest. Tsongkapa lived to
see great monasteries under his rule, to hear his
yellow-hooded monks acclaimed by the people, who
turned their backs upon the older unreformed Red-
hoods. The order which he thus founded—or, more
strictly, rejuvenated,—became so powerful that ere
long its head was called the Dalai Lama, the great
Lama.¹ This great Abbot was soon recognised,
together with another Incarnation, the Pantchen
Lama, as forming a sort of sovereign partnership
over the whole country. And now the horn of the
Dalai Lama has been exalted, it is higher than
that of his brother or rival. He is called Glorious
King, while the other is Glorious Teacher, and he
has great temporal power added to his religious
function.
When one of these two has died, the other seeks
his successor; three children are chosen, signs of
special virtue in these three being discernible by the