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...Domestic dissatisfaction reached a crescendo last month with Tibetan protests against Chinese rule. To quell the protests, the Chinese army entered Lhasa, and began firing upon protesters, killing over 80 people. The Dalai Lama has called China’s actions a “cultural genocide...
Pico first visited with the Dalai Lama when he was 17, in the sheltered settlement of Dharamsala, in the foothills of the Himalayas. After Tibet opened up to the world, Pico made three additional trips there. In April 1988, Pico wrote a major profile of the Dalai Lama for TIME and later went to Tibet to report for us on what that peaceful society was going through under martial law. As fans of his travel writings know, Pico's curiosity has led him to nearly every corner of the globe, but he has always found himself returning to the monk...
...Pico offers the definitive portrait of His Holiness in this week's cover story, which is adapted from his new book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. "Over the years," Pico says, "I've been struck by how practically he's adapted his message to the times and the worldwide audience. He's thought about his positions more deeply and more rigorously than anyone I've ever...
...erosion of their cultural freedoms. Those resentments exploded in the streets of Lhasa and other cities this month, prompting a clampdown by Chinese authorities. That has provoked talk of a partial boycott of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing. But by seeking dialogue with the Dalai Lama, as called for by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, China's rulers can show the world their commitment to promoting freedom and safeguarding human rights...
...cover portrait of the Dalai Lama is courtesy of another name familiar to TIME readers: James Nachtwey. Pairing Pico with Nachtwey, the planet's pre-eminent news photographer, seemed like journalistic Nirvana. The two first worked together in South Korea, 20 years ago. Jim, who has devoted his life to documenting wars and tragedy and famine everywhere from El Salvador to the West Bank to the Sudan, had always told us that if he ever had the chance to photograph the Dalai Lama, he would drop everything and do it. He got the chance and spent five days in March...