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0364 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 / 364 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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Doubtless one thing, full of opportunity to the
English, has been securely accomplished; that is
the establishment of discord in Tibet. There are
few countries, however civilised, in which the fire
of faction would not burn high after the giving of
power by exterior force to one group of men, tak-
ing it from another. We do not sufficiently under-
stand the real sentiments of the influential lamas
toward the two great Incarnations; we do not know
well enough the real attitude of the Chinese au-
thorities as distinguished from their enforced ac-
tion under British pressure; we do not know well
enough the degree of stupefied despair which may
have taken hold of the Tibetans at large on seeing
the recent exhibition of barbarous will working
through the power of science. It may be that this
alone will bring submission, all internal adjustments
between factions being made secondary to the desire
to escape from the vengeance of the Christians. Yet
even their submission may be checked by the
resistance of others.
The proposed treaty clearly threatens the rights
of Russia's subjects—Kalmuks and Buriats—who
have from time immemorial journeyed to Lhasa's
temples. The fierce, and, I believe, unwarranted
suspicion, which has led to the war just ended,
might at any time, if wielding suzerain power, cut
off this pilgrimage or unduly harass the pilgrims.
The rights of China are flouted; the proposed treaty
is, in fact, an attack upon the integrity of the Chinese
Empire, as a corresponding aggression upon North-
ern India by Russia would be considered as an
attack upon the British Empire. Yet England is