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Chanjea Lama, who is a native of the same region, and who constantly 
resided near the person of the Emperor of China. Under the imme¬ 
diate care of Teshoo Lama he received his education, and having 
proved himself a faithful, accomplished, and useful servant, he at 
length acquired the complete confidence of his master, and became, I 
was well assured, his particular favourite. As a public acknowledg¬ 
ment of his merit, he was appointed by Teshoo Lama, not long before 
his death, to the presidency of an important monastery styled Khonjin 
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Shimboi, which had an establishment of three hundred Gylongs, and was 
endowed with an extensive territory upon the western border of Tibet, 
near Luddauk. The Emperor of China, during his attendance on the 
Lama at his court, conferred upon him the title of Mirkin ChassaLama. 
As the office he filled at the time of the Lama’s death was that of 
Sadeek, which is synonymous with that of Zempi in Bootan, that is, 
cupbearer, he became of course invested with the charge of all the 
Lama’s effects, and was to continue in this high trust, until the rege¬ 
nerated Lama should be seated on the musnud c . 
The singular favour he enjoyed, seems to have been no more than 
was justly due to his integrity and talents; and in the event of the 
regency becoming vacant, from the general estimation in which he was 
held, I had no doubt of his advancement to that high honour. His 
influence indeed at that time, was scarcely less powerful, for he was 
treated by Chanjoo Cooshoo rather as a colleague, than as a subordinate 
officer, and his opinion was implicitly attended to on almost every 
occasion. A more harmonious agreement, or more perfect confidence, 
could not possibly subsist between them. 
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