Word: dalai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Samantha Jones, a Canadian, did some modeling in Paris after dropping out of the University of Toronto. Her greatest adventure was a disappointing visit to the Dalai Lama: "He didn't tell me anything...
Taking a year's leave of absence from his diplomatic post in Madrid, Singh set out to record the art of the whole Himalayan region. Most crucial to his success was a letter from the Dalai Lama -he carried it "like a magic wand." It authorized him to photograph inside Hindu and Buddhist temples, which is ordinarily prohibited. By mule, Jeep, helicopter and on foot, across dizzying rope bridges, up perilous footpaths, he scaled heights that literally took his breath away. Once he narrowly escaped death when he slipped and fell, only to catch a sturdy bush ten feet...
From New Delhi, he wrote of long meetings with the Dalai Lama in the Himalayan foothills and of an eight-day retreat among the exiled Tibetan monks. One lama courteously composed a poem celebrating their meeting, and Poet Merton returned the compliment. There was an added serenity in his final letter to the Center. "In my contacts with these new friends, I also feel a consolation in my own faith in Christ and his in dwelling presence," wrote Merton. "I hope and believe he may be present in the hearts...
Hope in Chaos. The International Commission of Jurists has branded this systematic annihilation of Tibetan life as "genocide." Three times the United Nations has censured Peking for "violating fundamental human rights and freedom." The Dalai Lama told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who journeyed to the god-king's exile in the Indian Himalayas at Dharmsala, that "Tibet still exists despite all the Chinese have done. But I don't know for how long. Another 20 years like this and there will be no Tibet...
...Taking advantage of the turmoil, Tibetans are issuing anti-Chinese leaflets. Some bolder Tibetans have been seen throwing stones at Chinese civilians and turning wall poster Mao portraits upside down. The Red Guards have sacked virtually all of the Peking-trained Tibetan civil servants for "regional nationalism." Says the Dalai Lama: "There is so much chaos now that it is definite that a change must come about. The Tibetan people may yet get an opportunity to throw off the yoke of oppression." That was probably wishful thinking, especially if the Maoists have indeed succeeded in bringing their own factions...