The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . m. TheLama died of small-pox at Peking the next year (1780),and Kienlung erected a very beautiful marble monu-ment to him in Peking, in the shape of a Thibetan chorten, or dagoba -shaped tomb,1 and forwarded hisbody in a golden coffin to the Dalai Lama at Ghurkalis, or Ghurkas, as they are now generallycalled, a warlike caste which not long before had usurpedthe kingdom of Nepal, invaded Thibet in 1791, tookTeshulumbo, the Teshu Lamas capital,
The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . m. TheLama died of small-pox at Peking the next year (1780),and Kienlung erected a very beautiful marble monu-ment to him in Peking, in the shape of a Thibetan chorten, or dagoba -shaped tomb,1 and forwarded hisbody in a golden coffin to the Dalai Lama at Ghurkalis, or Ghurkas, as they are now generallycalled, a warlike caste which not long before had usurpedthe kingdom of Nepal, invaded Thibet in 1791, tookTeshulumbo, the Teshu Lamas capital, and plundered it. 1 Compare the illustration on the next page. HISTORY 67 Kienlung resented this, and out of regard to his formerfriend he promptly sent a Chinese army, which defeatedand drove back theGhurkas. The Chinese commander,Sun Fo, evidently a general of great capacity, pursuedthem across the Himalayas with 40,000 men andmenaced their capital, Khatmandn. The Ghnrkas tookfright, while the Chinese general himself was anxious toget back ; so the contest ended by the Glinrka Maha-rajah agreeing to acknowledge himself the vassal of.
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