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0054 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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late Tashi Lama were one and the same, and that there
was no manner of difference between them, only that, as
he was yet merely an infant, and his spirit had but just
returned into the world, he was at present incapable of
action. The Regent assured Turner of the firm, un-
shaken attachment which the Tashi Lama had entertained
for Mr. Hastings to his latest breath, and he was also loud
in his encomiums on the occasion that gave birth to their
present friendship, which originated entirely in his granting
peace to the Bhutanese in compliance with the intercession
of the Tashi Lama.

In other interviews the Regent assured Turner that
during the interview of the late Tashi Lama with the
Emperor of China, the Lama had taken several opportuni-
ties to represent in the strongest terms the particular
amity which subsisted between the Governor-General and
himself. The Regent said that the Lama's conversation
had even influenced the Emperor to resolve upon com-
mencing a correspondence with his friend. Turner was
also assured that the Tashi Lama particularly sought from
the Emperor liberty to grant admission to Tibet to what-
ever person he chose, without control. And to this the
Emperor is said to have consented; but, owing to the
death of the Tashi Lama and the jealousy of the Chinese
officials, nothing resulted.

The power and influence of these Chinese officials
in Tibet was evidently very great, for in his intercourse
with the Tibetan officials Turner could plainly trace,
though they were averse to own any immediate de-
pendence upon the Chinese, the greatest awe of the
Emperor of China, and of his officers stationed at the
Court of Lhasa, who had usurped even from the hands of
the Dalai Lama the greatest portion of his temporal power.
When Turner offered to attend a certain ceremony, the
Regent excused himself from accepting the offer of his
company on account of the Chinese, whose jealousy
of strangers was well known, and to whom he was par-
ticularly anxious to give no occasion for offence. On a