Dalai Lama begins exile to India: March 1959 when he was 23 years of age. He had been the leader of Tibet since he was 18

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March 1959

After years of scattered protests, a full-scale revolt broke out in March 1959, and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee as the uprising was crushed by Chinese troops. On March 31, 1959, he began a permanent exile in India, settling at Dharamsala, where he established a democratically based shadow Tibetan government.

Dalai Lama begins exile

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