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  • n  a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers

  • In 1939, aged 4, seated on a golden palanquin, he was borne to Lhasa, where he was soon enthroned as the 14th incarnation of Chen-Re-Zi, the patron god of Bo (Tibet), and thus .
  • To satisfy his insatiable curiosity about a world he was permitted to glimpse only through the silk-fringed curtains of his golden palanquin, the young ruler set up a projector by .
  • As conch shells and cymbals sounded, the first flower-decked palanquin, bearing the leader of Hinduism's Maha Nirvana sect, moved toward the river bank near Allahabad where the .
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  • Haim Gouri in Ha'aretz
    In his book Gouri described the first signs of Eshkol's unusual personality: "She was apparently a queen. Her friends would bow down before her and carry her in an improvised palanquin made from their thin arms...... The teachers were afraid of her....

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