come?'

"'My faith is the teaching of the wise Buddha. I am Pandita Lama, Turjo
Gamba, from the distant and glorious monastery of Sakkia in Tibet, where
dwells incarnate in a human body the Spirit of Buddha, his Wisdom and
his Power. Remember, Emperor, that the peoples who hold our faith shall
possess all the Western Universe and during eight hundred and eleven
years shall spread their faith throughout the whole world.'

"Thus it happened on this same day many centuries ago! Lama Turjo Gamba
did not return to Tibet but lived here in Ta Kure, where there was then
only a small temple. From here he traveled to the Emperor at Karakorum
and afterwards with him to the capital of China to fortify him in
the Faith, to predict the fate of state affairs and to enlighten him
according to the will of God."

The Living Buddha was silent for a time, whispered a prayer and then
continued:

"Urga, the ancient nest of Buddhism. . . . With Jenghiz Khan on his
European conquest went out the Olets or Kalmucks. They remained there
almost four hundred years, living on the plains of Russia. Then they
returned to Mongolia because the Yellow Lamas called them to light
against the Kings of Tibet, Lamas of the 'red caps,' who were oppressing
the people. The Kalmucks helped the Yellow Faith but they realized that
Lhasa was too distant from the whole world and could not spread our
Faith throughout the earth. Consequently the Kalmuck Gushi Khan brought
up from Tibet a holy Lama, Undur Gheghen, who had visited the 'King of
the World.' From that day the Bogdo Gheghen has continuously lived in
Urga, a protector of the freedom of Mongolia and of the Chinese Emperors
of Mongolian origin. Undur Gheghen was the first Living Buddha in the
land of the Mongols. He left to us, his successors, the ring of Jenghiz
Khan, which was sent by Kublai Khan to Dalai Lama in return for the
miracle shown by the Lama Turjo Gamba; also the top of the skull of
a black, mysterious miracle worker from India, using which as a bowl,
Strongtsan, King of Tibet, drank during the temple ceremonies one
thousand six hundred years ago; as well as an ancient stone statue of
Buddha brought from Delhi by the founder of the Yellow Faith, Paspa."

The Bogdo clapped his hands and one of the secretaries took from a red
kerchief a big silver key with which he unlocked the chest with the
seals. The Living Buddha slipped his hand into the chest and drew forth
a small box of carved ivory, fr