ABSTRACT
On the same day as his arrival he rode out to meet the Khoshuud "king" and the regent as they arrived in mounted procession from Lhasa. It was said that such a thunder of hooves had never before been heard in India, China or Mongolia. The regent, for whom this was perhaps the most important event in his life, recorded all the minutest astrological configurations of the occasion just as he had done for the boy's ordination ten days earlier. Those holding the Dalai Lama's horse reported to him later that as the boy first caught sight of him he shed tears and then broke into smiles. The regent himself was quite overcome with emotion, crying unashamedly "in an inseparable mixture of joy and sorrow". The dense crush of people of all nationalities straining to witness the meeting was such that "there was nowhere to put one's feet". A reception in the main tent followed during which the regent rose to his feet and made an eloquent speech with all his skills as an orator and all the satisfaction of bringing the long plot to a successful conclusion. H e reviewed once again the whole sequence of events which had led to the secret discovery of the boy now enthroned before them. "Just as the rays of the sun cannot be blocked with one's own fist", so had his reappearance in the world finally become manifest despite all the obstacles.115
