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0307 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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the pride of their most pious successors,—this also
is familiar reading in Catholic history, and had its
counterpart at Lhasa about the beginning of the
eighteenth century, when the Potala (Vatican and
St. Peter's combined) and other notable buildings
were beautified and enlarged. The occasional pro-
minence of the pontifical ''nephew'' was also then
illustrated in the person of Sangji Gyamtso, putative
natural son of that celibate, the Dalai Lama, who
had founded the Potala.
How familiar is this figure in royal and pontifical
European records! Talented, ambitious, unscrupu-
lous, accomplished, the scandal and the pride of a
Court and nation, this Sangji Gyamtso ruled as
regent for many years. The death of his patron
was for a long time cleverly concealed, and, even
when announced, Gyamtso was able to give a satis-
factory explanation of his duplicity. The troublous
Mongol interventions gave reasons of state; he re-
tained his influence and, when a new Incarnation
was to be discovered, was able to direct the direct-
ing spirits toward a dissolute youth, upon whom he
had evidently lavished his destructive care since the
date of the concealed death, nearly sixteen years
before.
The Jesuit, Father Desideri, who was in Lhasa
from 1716 to 1721, witnessed the last efforts of the
Mongols from the north (this time from Dzungaria)
to control Tibetan polity. The definite triumph of
Chinese arms occurred in 1720, when Lhasa was
taken from the foreign troops and the native faction
which supported them. This European observer,
who doubtless thought of the invariable pillage and