From the BBC News (link):
In March 1959, as Chinese troops crushed an attempted uprising in Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled into India.
Then a young man in his mid-20s, the future must have seemed bleak.
With few countries prepared to respond to China’s actions and responsible for the thousands of Tibetans who followed their leader into exile, he faced a difficult task to protect Tibetans and their traditions.
See also – “Our Faith in Science” by the Dalai Lama published by the New York Times carried by Dalai Lama web site; – Interview Transcript with the Dalai Lama by CBS News;
