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Rh similarity between the Chinese transliteration of the Lamas in this list with that of Mr. Waddell's is striking and a good proof of his remarkable accuracy.

(For further references see the appendix.)

After this disgressiondigression [sic], I will now take up my principal theme: the visit of the Teshoo Lama.

This Teshoo Lama, whose name is given as r Dsche b Tsun d Pal dan-i-si by Hilarion, and b Lo-bzan dpal-ldan ye-s'es by Waddell, is a rather familiar person to Chinese scholars and to the general public taking interest in Buddhism and Lamaism.

He has become known: first, through the transcript of Emperor Ch‘ien Lung's letter to the 8th Dalai Lama (in his 46th reigning year, 14th day of the 2nd moon: which was prepared by P. Amyot, missionary at Peking) and is contained in the "Mémoires conoernant les Chinois," Tome IX; then through Mr. Dalrymple's references in the Vol. II, of the Oriental Repository: through Captain S. Turner's "Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet"; through C. Friedr. Koeppen's "Die Lamaische Hierarchic and Kirche" etc. Apart from the foregoing authorities, references are also found in the 聖武記 Shêng wu chi, which is a compilation from Imperial Edicts and official Historical Records of the Empire (上諭 and 國史), effected between the 22nd and 26th years of Tao Kwang, by the official 魏源 who must have held a position as secretary of the grand secretariat—(內閣中書). In this work, this Lama is stated to have been the sixth of