Opening Tibet

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 21, 1909

THE late visit of the dalai-lama (the high priest, and really highest civil power in Tibet) to the late empress dowager of China, is full of significance as to the opening up of Tibet to the missionary. Dr. H. W. Miller writes that the empress had ordered that the dalai was not to be consulted with reference to the organization of the government to be formed for Tibet, as that would be arranged for by the grand council at Peking, and that they were already proceeding with the formulation of plans for the governing of Tibet. This will place the heretofore closed country, which was really without government, in the hands of China; and this will mean that missionaries in Tibet will have the same protection they have now anywhere in China itself.