Chinghai

— Sometimes one of the two oracles goes into a trance and is able to indicate where the new Dalai Lama lives. In the case of the present Dalai Lama, the oracle of Samye, after going into a trance, following a fruitless four-year search, advised that the investigation should be extended to the Chinese province of Chinghai, who Amdo region is largely populated by Tibetans. Incidentally the great Tsong Ka-pa was born in Amdo. Here, along the shores of the Lake Koko Nor, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, child of a humble peasant family, was discovered.