Note 1 — Chapter III
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The Tibetan tongue, moreover, is the most generally known among nations professing the Buddhist faith.1 It is the channel of communication between the educated and influential classes in the state and society, especially where the Dalai Lama of Lassa is the acknowledged head of the faith. This, therefore, is evidently the channel through which the civilisation of the West could most easily penetrate into those distant regions.