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the third wheel in The Great Game. The older opponents then allied themselves against this new player. Russian national, produced wonderful works of art and wrote the third wheel in The Great Game. The older opponents then many beautiful books on Tibet (which were very similar to those allied themselves against this new player. written by Younghusband), he did so for the same reasons as his counterpart. Tibetan Spies on Both Sides Roerich's political manoeuvrings in The Great Game saw him There is an increasing number of books on the market that established as adviser to minister for agriculture and US vice- highlight Tibet's part in this Great Game. One such book, The presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace and put on the US Struggle for Modern Tibet by Goldstein et al. (1997), is written Government payroll, which funded his trips to Tibet in 1926 and about Tsering, a Tibetan national recruited into The Great Game 1928, partnered by the Soviet agent Yakov Blumkin. The in much the same way as described in the book Kim. The great official propaganda excuse for these US-funded trips to Great thing about this story is that it complicates our view of modern Game Central was for Roerich to bring back experimental Tibet. It begins to show the difference between the simplistic, samples of drought-resistant grasses. Roerich's reasons for these altruistic stories we have been told and what really happened trips in his writings were: there. Born in 1929 in a Tibetan * to examine ancient Zhang Zhung village, Tsering developed a strong texts; dislike of his country's theocratic * to explore the Sutlej Valley, ruling elite. As a 13-year-old Tibet, Mongolia, northeastern China | AS Q 13-year-old member of the member of the Dalai Lama's personal and certain valleys of southern dance troupe, he was frequently Siberia; Dalai Lama's personal dance whipped or beaten by teachers for * to discover the location of troupe, he was frequently minor infractions. Although Shambhala, from which will emerge heterosexual, he escaped the country the 25th Kalki King with a huge whipped or beaten by teachers by becoming a drombo, or army and super-weapons to vanquish for minor infractions. homosexual passive partner and sex the corrupt and usher in a worldwide toy, for a well-connected monk. Golden Age. After studying at the University of These are nearly identical to the reasons for the Nazi SS expeditions. Roerich convinced Wallace to get Washington, he returned to Chinese- occupied Tibet in 1964. This unusual story also suggests a middle Henry Morgenthau, Jr, secretary of the Treasury, to add the way between authoritarian Chinese rule and a return to Tibet's symbol of the pyramid with the All-Seeing Eye to the US one- old despotic order. dollar bill, which he did in 1934. Wallace was also able to get A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of President Roosevelt and delegates from 21 nations to sign the Bapa Phiintso Wangye by Goldstein et al. (2004) details the life Roerich Pact in 1935, which led to the establishment of the of a Tibetan national, Phunwang, recruited for the other side of United Nations as well as Camp David, originally named The Game. As a teenager, Phunwang eagerly joined a Chinese- "Shambhala" (which supposedly miraculously avoided disaster run program designed to train ethnic minorities for government on 9/11). Find more about Roerich's part in The Great Game in work. A natural-born leader, he was convinced that communism the book Tournament of Shadows, by Karl Meyer and Shareen was the key to better lives for Tibet's poor and started the Tibetan Blair Brysac. Communist Party, earning praise from both the Dalai Lama and Though most of the West retains glowing feelings for the Mao Zedong. Yet he was expelled from Tibet in 1940, and for Tibetan Buddhists, Germany's love affair with all things Tibetan Buddhist has not lasted. In Munich in May 2000, the media accused the Dalai Lama of: + deliberately falsifying the history of Tibet; * maintaining personal and working relationships with former members of the SS (Heinrich Harrer and others) and Neo- Nazis; * defaming critics; * conducting misogynistic rituals; * having an undemocratic and autocratic leadership style; * suppressing any political opposition; and * actively repressing religious minorities. The faces of the players changed after World War II, but the old conflicts remained. The United States replaced the British Empire as the public face of the Western forces, yet the struggles remained in the same areas for the same reasons. Heinrich Harrer (1912-2006) is pictured with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who presented him with the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth Award in Graz, Austria, on 15 October 2002 China eventually replaced Germany as As a 13-year-old member of the Dalai Lama’ 8 personal dance et troupe, he was frequently whipped or beaten by teachers for minor infractions. NEXUS + 53 AUGUST —- SEPTEMBER 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com