Seeking the Dalai Lama's Blessing, a Tibetan Monk Sets Out to Flee China
DHARAMSHALA, India—For Jamyang Monlam, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk in Tibet, time was running out.
He longed to meet the Dalai Lama, the 89-year-old religious leader revered by Tibetans but viewed by China's Communist leaders as a dangerous separatist. Now, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in India since China seized control of Tibet in the 1950s, was growing frailer.
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