An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

246 TIBET.Chanjea Lama, who isa native of the same region, and who constantlyresided near the person of the Emperor of China. Under the immediatecare of Teshoo Lama he received his education, and havingproved himself a faithful, accomplished, and useful servant, he atlength acquired the complete confidence of his master, and became, Iwas well assured, his particular favourite. As a public acknowledgmentof his meiit, he was appointed by Teshoo Lama, not long beforehis dealh, tothe presidency of an important monastery styled KhonjinShimboi, which had an establishment of three hundred Gy longs, and wasendowed with an extensive territory upon the western border of Tibet,near Luddauk.The Emperor of China, during his attendance on theLama at his court, conferred upon him the title of Mirkin Chassa Lama.As the office he filled at the time of the Lama's death was that ofSadeck, which is synonymous with that of Zempi in Bootan, that is,cupbearer, he became of course invested with the charge of all theLama's effects, and was to continue in this high trust, until the regeneratedLama should be seated on the musnud'.The singular favour he enjoyed, seems to have been no more thanwas justly due to his integrity and talents ; and in the event of theregency becoming vacant, from the general estimation in which he washeld, I had no doubt of his advancement to that high honour. Hisinfluence indeed at that time, was scarcely less powerful, for he wastreated by Chanjoo Cooshoo rather as a colleague, than as a subordinateofficer, and liis opinion was implicitly attended to on almost everyoccasion.A more harmonious agreement, or more perfect confidence,could not possibly subsist between them.• Throne.