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  • Both, however, continue to recognize the sovereignty of the Dalai-Lama.

    How Tibet and Palestine Are Fighting for Freedom 2008

  • I share the day of my birthday with G.W.Bush, Sylvester Stallone and the Dalai-Lama.

    anniversary 2005

  • It is to be regretted that he does not give a more detailed account of Tibet and Lhasa, the capital of the Dalai-Lama, which he was the first European to enter.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • This circumstance, however, does not do away with your right to lecture Mr. Oulibicheff very wittily, and with a thorough knowledge of the subject, for having made of Mozart a sort of Dalai-Lama, [The head of the temporal and spiritual power in Thibet (Translator's note)] beyond which there is nothing.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • And he never will emerge thence! "solemnly said the Moonshee, adding in a whisper:" He may, by the grace of Buddha, be re-incarnated as the Dalai-Lama.

    A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

  • Dalai-Lama, head of all Lamas; have house at Lhasa.

    Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose Grant Allen 1873

  • The Sikhs respect him as much as the Tibetans respect their Dalai-Lama.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • As Buddha incarnates in every new Dalai-Lama, so, here, Gunpati (Ganesha, the god of wisdom with the elephant's head) is allowed by his father Shiva to incarnate in the eldest son of a certain

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • Dalai-Lama, the insignificant "Self" of the person, quite confounded at his own greatness.

    Andersen's Fairy Tales 1840

  • In short, if Teufelsdröckh was Dalai-Lama, of which, except perhaps in his self-seclusion, and god-like indifference, there was no symptom, then might Heuschrecke pass for his chief Talapoin, to whom no dough-pill he could knead and publish was other than medicinal and sacred.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

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