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National Geographic reprints the amazing first-person account of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian soldier who escaped from a British P.O.W. camp in modern-day Pakistan and fled to Tibet, where he ended up as one of the Dalai Lama’s tutors. The article chronicles his extended stay in Lhasa, and originally ran 53 years ago.
Here’s an excerpt:

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Saddened by both rioting Tibetans and the resulting Chinese crackdown, the Dalai Lama has threatened to “resign” as Tibet’s political leader if his followers don’t abandon violence as an avenue of protest.
From the BBC:

“If they choose violence as the means to achieve their political ends then the Dalai Lama cannot lead that movement,” says secretary […]

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