In Exile From the Land of Snows (80 page)

Ngabo Ngawang Jigme
(exteme left)
toasts the signing of the Seventeen-Point Agreement with Zhu De, Commander-in-Chief of the People’s Liberation Army
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Mao Zedong hosts a banquet for the Panchen Lama (left) and Dalai Lama (right) on their arrival in Peking, August 1954
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Prime Minister Nehru with the Dalai Lama and Zhou Enlai in New Delhi, November 1956
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Chinese trucks arrive for the first time in Lhasa on the newly completed Chinghai-Tibet Highway, January 1955
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Nechung Monastery, home of Tibet’s State Oracle; Drepung, the world’s largest monastery, in the background, late 1950s
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One of the many anti-Chinese demonstrations held in and around Lhasa in March 1959
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The Dalai Lama delivers his New Year’s sermon to 50,000 monks in front of the Tsuglhakang, Lhasa’s Central Cathedral
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The Dalai Lama
(second from left)
and his bodyguard on horseback
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The Dalai Lama with his younger brother, Ngari Rinpoché
(front row, extreme right)
and Khampa guerrillas during their escape from Tibet
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The Dalai Lama escorted by Gurkhas after his arrival in India
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Officers of Chushi Gangdruk, Tibet’s guerrilla resistance
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One of the first groups of Tibetan refugees to reach India
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A class of refugee schoolchildren in Mussoorie, early 1960s
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