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India and Tibet : vol.1 |
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they said, "let us forget the past; let us be practical, and
look only at the present. Here we are, the leading men
in Tibet, ready to negotiate at Gyantse, and make a settle-
ment which will last for a century."
I replied to the Yutok Sha-pé that I had no doubt that
if a sensible man like himself had been sent to me sooner,
we might have made up a satisfactory settlement long
ago, and there would have been no necessity for us to go
through all this inconvenience of advancing through an
inhospitable country to Lhasa; but after the many chances
which had been given them of negotiating at Gyantse,
they could hardly consider it reasonable that we should
give them any more. Moreover, the Viceroy had formed
the opinion, from the fact of the Ta Lama having told me
at Gyantse that he had no authority to evacuate the jong
without referring to Lhasa, and from the fact of his run-
ning away, that he had not sufficient power to make a
settlement. For all these reasons we were compelled to
go to Lhasa, though I was ready to negotiate on the way,
and we would return directly a settlement was made.
They then made further reference to their religion
being spoilt if we went to Lhasa, and I asked them to
make more clear to me in what way precisely their re-
ligion would be spoilt. I said we were not intolerant of
other religions, as they themselves were. They had yester-
day told me that, though there were some Mohammedans
in Lhasa, yet they were not allowed to practise their
religious rites. We had no such feelings towards other
religions. On the contrary, we allowed the followers of
each to practise their religious observances as they liked.
The delegates said that they were not so intolerant to
the Mohammedans: they merely forbade building mosques,
and prevented any new Mohammedans coming into their
country. I said that at any rate some were there, and
apparently they had not spoilt the religion of the
Tibetans. They replied that the ancestors of these had
come many, many years ago, and the Tibetans had become
accustomed to them; to which my rejoinder was that if
Mohammedans had lived among them practising their
religious rites for all these years—apparently for centuries
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