Saturday, December 20, 2008

Dalai Lama -Pictures from the Archives


A painting by Kanwal Krishna showing a young Dalai Lama




Dalai Lama (or Tenzin Gyatso, born in 1935), the traditional religious and temporal head of Tibet’s Buddhist clergy




A Chinese military officer addresses Tibetans in front of the Potala Palace, former home of the Dalai Lama, after an unsuccessful uprising against Chinese rule in 1959




High in the Himalayas, the Dalai Lama, sixth from left, rests with warriors who protected him on his flight from the Chinese


Averaging 12 miles a day through the Himalyas, the Dalai Lama is shown journeying through the Karpo Pass



The Dalai Lama with his mother (Left) Gyuam Chemo, in the grounds of Birla House, Mussoorie, India, where he lived in exile

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