by John Avedon
The Dalai Lama (second from left) and his bodyguard on horseback. (picture credit i1.20)
The Dalai Lama with his younger brother, Ngari Rinpoché (front row, extreme right) and Khampa guerrillas during their escape from Tibet. (picture credit i1.21)
The Dalai Lama escorted by Gurkhas after his arrival in India. (picture credit i1.22)
Officers of Chushi Gangdruk, Tibet’s guerrilla resistance. (picture credit i1.23)
One of the first groups of Tibetan refugees to reach India. (picture credit i1.24)
A class of refugee schoolchildren in Mussoorie, early 1960s. (picture credit i1.25)
Guerrillas from Mustang on a foray into Tibet. (picture credit i1.26)
Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, personal physician to the Dalai Lama. (picture credit i1.27)
Lobsang Jigme, the Medium of the State Oracle of Tibet, in repose. (picture credit i1.28)
Tibet’s State Oracle in the first public trance conducted in exile, Mundgod, India, March 1983. (picture credit i1.29)
Monks returning from work in their fields, Mundgod, India. (picture credit i1.30)
Monks leaving Drepung Monastery in Mundgod, India, enroute to a religious ceremony. (picture credit i1.31)
Members of the Tibetan Youth Congress practicing maneuvers with wooden rifles. (picture credit i1.32)
Tibetan road workers in northern India. (picture credit i1.33)
Night view of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, India, site of the Buddha’s enlightenment. (picture credit i1.34)
Monks of the Gelugpa sect in debate. (picture credit i1.35)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama greeting 100,000 people at a Kalachakra initiation offered in Bodh Gaya, India. (picture credit i1.36)
Dr. Tenzin Choedrak, chief physician to the Dalai Lama. (picture credit i1.37)
Tempa Tsering in Dharamsala. (picture credit i1.38)
Gendun Thargay in New York (picture credit i1.39)
Ganden Monastery, the third largest monastery in the world, early 1920s. (picture credit i1.40)
The ruins of Ganden Monastery today. (picture credit i1.41)
Yambulakhang in the late 1940s; Tibet’s first palace, built in 127 B.C. (picture credit i1.42)
Yambulakhang today. (picture credit i1.43)
A monastery being used as a machine shop. (picture credit i1.44)
Buddhist temple converted to a granary. (picture credit i1.45)
A commune school room in Central Tibet. (picture credit i1.46)
Tibetans surround the bus carrying the first delegation in Lhasa. (picture credit i1.47)
Lhasans storm the Central Cathedral to greet the first delegation sent to Tibet by the Dalai Lama, September 1979. (picture credit i1.48)
Tibetans run to greet the second delegation below the ruins of Dayab Monastery in Kham. (picture credit i1.49)
A twenty-five-foot-tall pile of destroyed statues, photographed by the second delegation in a palace of the Norbulingka. (picture credit i1.50)
The Panchen Lama with members of the second delegation in Peking, May 1980. (picture credit i1.51)
Lobsang Samten, the Dalai Lama’s brother, blessing crowds at Labrang Tashikhiel, the first delegation’s initial stop in Tibet. (picture credit i1.52)
Crowds seeking blessings from Pema Gyalpo, the Dalai Lama’s sister and leader of the third delegation. (picture credit i1.53)
The ruins of Dungkhar Monastery visited by members of the third delegation. (picture credit i1.54)