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

338 TIBET.countrymen. By the most amiable exercise of extensive power,he won the hearts of all his votaries. His public conduct, on alloccasions, bore undistinguished testimony to the benevolent propensitiesof his nature ; and clearly proved that all his actions wereuniformly prompted, by a desire of extending happiness to allaroundhim.His humane and considerate temper was eminently displayed inhis interposition with the English government, on behalf of the peopleof Bootan ; and, in the opinion of his followers, this successful exerciseof his influence, reflected the brightest lustre on his sacred name.But it is not to the partial and interested representations of his ownvotaries alone, that we are to look for a favourable delineation of thecharacter of the late Lama. His manners are reported by Mr. Bogleto have been in the highest degree engaging. He represents his dispositionas open, candid, and generous in the extreme. In familiarconversation he describes him asnot merely easy, but even facetiousand entertaining.He says, that his thirst of knowledge was unboundcd; and that from the numerous travellers, who on religious, or evencommercial motives^ daily resorted lo Teshoo Loomboo, he sought alloccasions of extending liis information ; while at the same time, he wasequally free in communicating the knowledge, Avhich he himself possessed.His whole character, indeed, so powerfully excited the admirationof Mr. Bogle, as to have drawn from liim this enthusiastic, butsincere expression: " I endeavoured to discover in him some of thosedefects, which are inseparable from humanity; but he is so universally,beloved that I had no success, and not a man could find in his heartto speak ill of hira."