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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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freely admitted to Tibet at that time. Nothing could
have been pleasanter than the reception given to
Turner by the regent who acted for the Teshoo lama,
a babe of eighteen months, successor to him who had
begun the correspondence with Hastings, and who
had warmly received Bogle. One who writes of
Tibet now is tempted to make large borrowings from
the cheerful text which Turner gives us. His busi-
ness did not call him to Lhasa, and it is stated, more-
over, that the Chinese, even then, interposed some
objection to his progress thither. Whatever may
have been the causes, neither he nor Bogle reached
the sacred city. The Teshoo lama has his seat to
the westward of the capital, and here Turner saw
much and intimately of Tibetan life, which he de-
scribed with critical but sympathetic observation.
It will be but the beginning of justice to quote from
this Englishman, for comparison with present-day
representations, the following words: ''The Tibet-
ans are a very humane, kind people,'' and again:
''Humanity and an unartificial gentleness of disposi-
tion are the constant inheritance of a Tibetan.''ยน
The Nepal war ended, there followed years of
peace for Central and Eastern Tibet. But another
attack from India had to be repelled in 1846, and
again the enemy was an ally of the British. There
is no evidence that the attack of the Goorkhas in
1791 was incited by the English, for the Goorkhas
were then bound to Calcutta only through a com-
mercial treaty. Nor can it be said that the attack
of the Jammu-Kashmir army upon Ladak and sub-
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