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Doctor From Lhasa
CONTENTS
Author’s Forward11Into the Unknown72Chungking233Medical Days424Flying585The Other Side of Death826Clairvoyance1027Mercy Flight1168When The World Was Very Young1359Prisoner Of The Japanese15410How To Breathe17011The Bomb189
 
 
Author's Foreword
WHEN I was in England I wrote
The Third Eye
, a book which is true, but which has caused much comment. Letterscame in from all over the world, and in answer to requestsI wrote this book, Doctor from Lhasa.My experiences, as will be told in a third book, have been far beyond that which most people have to endure,experiences which are paralleled only in a few cases inhistory. That, though, is not the object of 
this
book whichdeals with a continuation of my autobiography.I am a Tibetan lama who came to the western world in pursuance of his destiny, came as was foretold, and en-dured all the hardships as foretold. Unfortunately, western people looked upon me as a curio, as a specimen whoshould be put in a cage and shown off as a freak from theunknown. It made me wonder what would happen to myold friends, the Yetis, if the westerners got hold of them— as they are trying to do.Undoubtedly the Yeti would be shot, stuffed, and put insome museum. Even then people would argue and say thatthere were no such things as Yetis! To me it is strange beyond belief that western people can believe in television,and in space rockets that may circle the Moon and returnand yet not credit Yetis or “Unknown Flying Objects,” or,in fact, anything which they cannot hold in their hands and pull to pieces to see what makes it work.But now I have the formidable task of putting into justa few pages that which before took a whole book, the detailsof my early childhood. I came of a very high-rankingfamily, one of the leading families in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. My parents had much to say in the control of thecountry, and because I was of high rank I was given severe1
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