Lalin

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a Spanish town about 26 N. own about miles of Pontevedra. Some interesting old Some inter buildings are located in the city, ed in the including an old Roman temple and the ruins of the emple and monastery of Carboiro. Pop. of Carb about 17,500. LA LINEA, a Spanish city near the city near English fortress of Gibraltar. Inhabited Car Inhal by laborers who make their living working for the garrison at Gibraltar and Gibraltar selling foodstuffs to them and to the naval vessels stationed there. Pop. about there. 35,000. LALITA-VISTARA (lali-ta-vis (lal'i-ta-vis'tarä), the name of one of the most celebrated works of Buddhistic The mos literature. It belongs to the N. Buddhists, existing only in a debased Sanskrit version. It contains a narrative of the life and doctrine of the Buddha Sakya-muni, treating of " Dharma," or religious law. built the first experimental boat. Three partly religious, partly political-the LAMAISM (lä'ma-izm), system ), szystera a Church and State Establishment of totalement of Tibet-standing in the same relation to time relation to Buddhism proper as Western State churches stand to primitive Christianity. the Western State Buddhism ve Christianity. was introduced into Tibet in d into Tibet in A. D. 622 by Srong Tsan Kampo, who Kampo, who founded the present capital, now known cal, now known as Lhasa. From the death of this th of this king down to about 850 is called the "First king Introduction of Religion." More than a More than a century of civil war followed, and in 971 there llowed, and in took place the "Second Intro- "Second Introduction of Religion" into Tibet. For more 300 years to Tibet. For Buddhism grew in power Le power and wealth, and Kublai Khan embraced han-embraced the doctrine of the Lamas 1390, mas. In 1890, Tsongkapa, the Tibetan monastic . In former, appeared in Lhasa, and at his death, reasa, and at his in 1419, he left three immense monasteries three immense with 30,000 monks. The two maedics. The things on which he insisted were (1) Stated were (1) the observance of celibacy, and (2) simplicity and (2) simin dress. About the middle of the 15th ne middle of the century, the Emperor of China eror of China acknowledged the leaders-the Dalai ers--the Dalal Lama and the Pantshen Lama-as titular overlords of the Church and tributary and tributary rulers of Tibet. They were abbots of the monasteries at Gedun Dubpa near Lhasa, and were abbots of in Dubpa near Krashis Lunpo in Further apo in Further Tibet, and their successors still exercise the same rights. Both s still exercise are looked upon looked upon as incarnations-living in heaven, and En neaven, and appearing on earth in an apparitional en apparitional body. The political authority of the Dalai Lama is confined to Tibet, but he is to Tibet, bat head of the Buddhist Church Klat Chareb throughout Mongolia and China. LA MANCHA. See MANCHA, LA. ANORA, LA.