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onyx, amber, and pearl: so that Tasi-lhunpo overflowed with riches. 
The young Panchhen gave sumptuous dinners to all the monasteries 
of IT and Tsan about 700 in number and distributed alms consisting 
of silver pieces to all the monks. At the age of eleven he came to 
Lhasa to visit the Dalai Lama. Although he received instruction in the 
S'astras from the Dalai, yet he was seated on the right hand side on a 
throne as high as the Dalai’s own. After a short stay at Lhasa he returned 
to Tsan. At the age of fifteen he again visited Lhasa, heard some of the 
sermons of the Dalai Lama, made offerings to the two sacred images of 
Akshobhya and Gautama, entertained the Sera, Dapun and Gahdan monas¬ 
teries with tea and soup meal and distributed a great deal of money for 
charitable purposes. At the age of twenty he visited Lhasa a third time 
and received ordination to the priesthood from the Dalai Lama Kal-ssan 
Gya-tsho. This time his great liberality in religious donations and en¬ 
dowments, offerings to the sacred shrines, and alms of a silver san 
(Rs. 2-|) to each of the monks of Sera, Dapun, Gahdan, Potala, Radih 
and various other monasteries, numbering 118 in I/ and 370 in Tsang, 
made his name famous far and wide. There were few beggars who did 
not partake of his bounty. He also spent immense sums of money in 
administering medicines to the sick. The twenty-first year of the Panchhen’s 
age was inaugurated by the advent to Tasi-lhunpo of Chankya Rin- 
po-chhe, the Emperor’s spiritual guide, the greatest of the Imperial 
high priests of the celestial Empire, to see the Vicegerent of Buddha in 
the person of the Panchhen Rinpochhe. He made innumerable kinds 
of presents among which the following were the principal ones: 6 rosaries 
of pearls, coral and amber, 20 horse-hoof silver plates, 100 suits of Tartar 
robes of the very best China satin and numberless scarves. Chankya 
Rinpochhe stayed at Tasi-lhunpo for several months, aud received from 
the Panchhen lessons in the Sutras and Tantras. In the year 1759 the 
Panchhen Rinpochhe sanctified the golden tomb of the late Dalai Lama, 
whose soul was reported to have appeared in the person of the child. At 
the special request of the Emperor, he visited Lhasa. On examination he 
found that the incarnation was unmistakeably genuine, and gave him the 
name of Lo-ssan Jampal Gya-tsho. After lavishing alms on the various 
monasteries he returned to Tasi-lhunpo. Three years afterwards he again 
visited Lhasa to place the young Dalai on the throne of Potala He comme¬ 
morated the occasion by giving grand dinners to the temporal and 
spiritual lords of the country. The amount of gold and silver expended 
on this occasion could not be estimated. During the return journey 
to Tasi-lhunpo he visited Gyal-tse the monastery of which place he richly 
endowed. At Tasi-lhunpo he administered the vows of monkhood to several 
thousand novices. At the £ge of twenty-eight he visited Lhasa and initiated 
