Barefooted and dressed like a guard: How the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and made India his home

Today, he’s a frail 90. But in March 1959, in his early 20s, the 14th Dalai Lama undertook perhaps one of the most difficult journeys of his lifetime — fleeing Tibet under the cover of darkness, disguised as a soldier, to escape Chinese authority. Two weeks later, he arrived in India, which he has since adopted as his home

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