Abstract

Almost forty years have passed since the year 1959 when the Dalai Lama fled to India from Lhasa. There seems to be no sign yet of compromise between the claims of the Tibet Administration at Dharamsala and the Chinese Government in Beijing. A number of articles and books on this issue have appeared. In this essay, apart from interpretations of the political situation, I present an overview of the peculiarities of Tibetan society as a background to the contemporary situation.

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