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Authors: John Avedon

Tags: #20th Century, #Asia, #Buddhism, #Dalai Lama, #History, #Nonfiction, #Retail, #Tibetan

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Tempa Tsering in Dharamsala
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Gendun Thargay in New York
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Ganden Monastery, the third largest monastery in the world, early 1920s
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The ruins of Ganden Monastery today
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Yambulakhang in the late 1940s; Tibet’s first palace, built in 127 B.C
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Yambulakhang today
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A monastery being used as a machine shop
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Buddhist temple converted to a granary
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A commune school room in Central Tibet
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Tibetans surround the bus carrying the first delegation in Lhasa
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Lhasans storm the Central Cathedral to greet the first delegation sent to Tibet by the Dalai Lama, September 1979
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Tibetans run to greet the second delegation below the ruins of Dayab Monastery in Kham
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A twenty-five-foot-tall pile of destroyed statues, photographed by the second delegation in a palace of the Norbulingka
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