The Dalai Lama's Flight to India

In a cloak-and-dagger operation in 1959, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his palace in Lhasa in disguise and headed for India. Granting the Tibetan spiritual leader asylum had an adverse effect on India’s ties with China. Take a look at what it meant.

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