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Mr. Rockhill, in his letter to me, dated American Embassy, Constantinople, the 15th March 1912, wrote as follows:—
My dear friend, * * * I see that the Dalai Lama has left Darjeeling for Lhasa. I hope he only acted on good advice and that he will not regret the step he has taken. He is rather opinionated and I can well imagine that he was getting very restless at the prolonged exile. As my relations with him have always been most agreeable and cordial I am very heartily his well-wisher. It may be that under the new regimé in China he will be able to secure for his country the autonomous Government all Tibetans wait for. I hope he may.
It will give me much pleasure to send you my photograph as soon as I can get one for you. Send me also yours. I have not seen you since 1885. What a long time!
Always sincerely yours,
W. W. Rockhill
The Dalai Lama is seated on a chair. On his right-behind and left stand my friends Lon-chen Gung-thang-pa and Lon-chen Shol-khang-pa. The former, his Lama Minister wrote, at my request, the རྒྱལ་བའི or ཏྰ་ལའི་བླ་མའི་འཁྲུངས་རབ (Appendix VII) and the latter perhaps, the most thoughtful among his councillors, used often to see me in 1911, at my residence Lhasa-Villa in Darjeeling.
- April 1914. Sarat Chandra Das.
