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From a Western point of view, the Dalai Lama is a deposed king, an exiled leader of the world's last theocracy. Tibet, ringed by the highest mountains on earth, suspended midway between the imposing civilization of India and China, was for hundreds of years a land of mystery, effectively...
In 1959, after almost ten years of pressure, China marched in and declared Tibet a Chinese territory. The Dalai Lama and about 100,000 Tibetans managed to escape. Since then the exiled leader and roughly 70,000 Tibetans have been living in Dharamsala, India, trying to preserve Tibetan culture and...
From all reports that surfaced prior to 1959, Tibetan civilization was indeed unique. Occasionally enterprising Westerners who had made it past the Himalayas returned to the Occident telling tales of an amazing land of miracles, where the religious rituals, customs and supernatural occurences were equaled in strangeness only by the...
Sometime during his first incarnation as leader of Tibet in the late 1500s, the Dalai Lama came to a momentous decision. For the sake of Tibet, he decided to reincarnate life after life in the same human niche, as leader of his country, to preserve its spiritual welfare. Each lifetime...
Perhaps Tibet's adherence to spiritual goals like loving enemies and avoiding violence helped to make China's vanquishment of Tibet so complete. Along with the thousands of armed batallions that marched into Tibet in 1959 came over five million Chinese "settlers." The Chinese indiscriminately murdered the Tibetans, dismembering and...