'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [‎101r] (206/228)

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posiiion hy accepting the draft which Chang-
xm-Tang had refused to sign, and that in
due firSt 'f t !', lment would be
1st T-irinn ^ tlie -S^ ails . at G y ants e on the
paid on Y*t / ^ nsta ^ men t were not
been n i.rl , there woul( i have
been a. technical breach of the Treaty which
rmght be useful in certaiti contingencies. It
11^ t { lat , tlie Government of India did
not anticipate trouble, even if the Tibetans
“rth^^r in Payment ’ as ^
e.t with the British Government to take action
o i ecoyer arrears if and when convenient to
themselves to do so.
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An agent of Captain O’Connor’s heard
irom a friend that arrangements were beino*
made by the Lhasa Government for the pay
ment of the first instalment of the indemnity
on 1st January.
3. (See paragraph 12 of Memorandum
for October 1905.) Captain O’Connor sent his
Tibetan clerk to visit the Tashi Lama’s Minister
on the 16th October, in order to ask him
to take steps for procuring prompt and reliable
information from Nagchuka regarding the
movements of the Dalai Lama, the strength
of his Chinese escort, &c., and this he promised
to do. It was also arranged with him
that he should instruct his agent at Lhasa
to send him a weekly news-letter, which
he should forward on to Captain O’Connor.
The Minister gave the clerk some particulars
regarding the jealousy which exists between the
Dalai Lama and the Incarnate Lama of Urga
(known to the Tibetans as the “ Kar-ka Je-tsun
Tam-pa). It appears that a few years ago the
Dalai Lama sent a message to the Urga Lama
to reproach him for the practices of drinking
wine and consorting with women, which are
contrary to the rules of the reformed Buddhist
Church of Tibet. The Urga Lama took this
admonition very ill; and when the Dalai Lama
reached Urga last year, he did not go out to
meet him on the road, in accordance with
Tibetan custom, but confined his attentions to
paying a formal call on the day follow
ing the Dalai Lama’s arrival, . in which
call he was accompanied by his wife for the
time being. This proceeding naturally
widened the breach already existing between
the two Lamas, and the Urga Lama, it is said,
sent letters to Peking, begging that the Dalai
Lama might be ordered to return to Tibet as
soon as possible, and pointing out that he was
engaged in intrigues with Russia. According to
th^ Minister, the Dalai Lama received peremp-
tory 0 J d ^fXll C hoped to r be U allowed to visit
SS and with tlit end in view proposed to
11! tA the Kum-fum monastery (near
S in Kansu) on his way south, where
he infended halting and again endeavouring to
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