Person
13th Dalai Lama
Далай лам
Three travelers wrote about 13th Dalai Lama between 1884 and 1943. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1884–1943
Under a Lucky StarRoy Chapman Andrews
The Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal head of Tibet and first figure of the Lamaist hierarchy. Andrews' contemporary was the thirteenth holder of the office, who had taken refuge at Urga in 1904 during the British invasion of Tibet.
First, of course, was the Dalai Lama, second the Tashi Lama, both of Tibet; then the Hutukhtu of Mongolia, The Hutukhtu was an…Listen from here · chapter 16, 3:17 - 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
The 13th Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso), Tibet's spiritual and temporal head, who took refuge at Urga in 1904 during the British invasion of Tibet and later stayed in Peking.
…I did not think much of the things he got, but the Dalai Lama was very pleased, and so were all his friends whom he invited in to see what he had…Listen from here · chapter 1, 36:47…was of amiable disposition and very wealthy in his own right, so the Dalai Lama found him a valuable addition to his already numerous train.…Listen from here · chapter 1, 37:41 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
The first Pontiff of the Yellow Faith at Lhasa, in Ossendowski's day the 13th Dalai Lama (Thubten Gyatso). Tushegoun Lama claimed his friendship, and every road in the book's mystical geography runs at last toward his city.
…works of all the thirty-one Living Buddhas, with the bulls of the Dalai Lama, of the Pontiff from Tashi Lumpo, of the Hutuktu of Utai in China, of the Pandita Gheghen…Listen from here · chapter 45, 7:05…he carried out with him the miraculous ‘black stone’ sent to the Dalai Lama by the ‘King of the World.’ Gushi Khan wanted to create in Western Mongolia the capital…Listen from here · chapter 46, 4:51
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