{"id":968,"date":"2009-09-12T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/?p=968"},"modified":"2009-09-21T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:14:52","slug":"heinrich-harrers-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Lost Lhasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer01-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"harrer01\" title=\"harrer01\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer01-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer01-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer01.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCheeks ballooning, monks force sirenlike blasts from silver trumpets as they clear the way for their king.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer02-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"harrer02\" title=\"harrer02\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer02-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer02-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer02.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTop Tibetan officials marvel at a souvenir from America. A finance secretary peers through a slide viewer, memento of a Tibetan trade delegation&#8217;s mission to the United States in 1948. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer03-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"harrer03\" title=\"harrer03\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer03-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer03-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer03.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMother and child pray on Chagpori&#8217;s crest, a pilgrim shrine. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer04-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"harrer04\" title=\"harrer04\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer04-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer04-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer04.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClouds of dust and incense veil the Dalai Lama&#8217;s flight to safety. When China&#8217;s troops entered Tibet in 1950, the Living Buddha fled to the Sikkim border. Here in a sedan chair, he rides between rows of stones designed to ward off demons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer05-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"harrer05\" title=\"harrer05\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer05-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer05-450x298.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sheepish.org\/engine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/harrer05.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn sublime reverence, the Dalai Lama cradles his faith&#8217;s holiest relic. When this young man was two years old, mysterious signs revealed him as the incarnation of Tibet&#8217;s patron god, Chanrezi, and the previous 13 Dalai Lamas. Here at Dungkhar Monastery he receives a gold-encased bone which Tibetans believe to be that of Gautama Buddha, who founded the religion on which Lamaism is based.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2008\/05\/tibetans\/harrer-photography\">My Life in Forbidden Lhasa<\/A> by Heinrich Harrer, National Geographic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheeks ballooning, monks force sirenlike blasts from silver trumpets as they clear the way for their king. Top Tibetan officials marvel at a souvenir from America. A finance secretary peers through a slide viewer, memento of a Tibetan trade delegation&#8217;s mission to the United States in 1948. 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