He was two years old when monks arrived at his family's farmhouse with objects belonging to the 13th Dalai Lama. The toddler correctly identified each one. "This is mine," he said. Born Lhamo Thondup in 1935, he became Tibet's spiritual leader at four, its political leader at fifteen — just as China invaded. He fled to India in 1959, where he's lived ever since. His government rules nothing but embassies and hope. In 1989, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for a country that technically doesn't exist anymore.
July 6, 1977
49 years ago
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