Modern Era · South Asia · Politics
1959
Dalai Lama flees Tibet
March 10, 1959
After a Tibetan uprising in Lhasa, the twenty-three-year-old Dalai Lama disguised himself as a soldier and slipped out of his palace at night. He crossed the Himalayas on horseback to India, where he would spend the rest of his life in exile at Dharamsala, leading a Tibetan community, and becoming a global moral figure.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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