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DHARAMSALA AND THE DALAI LAMA

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April 8th 2009
27-29 March. After a brutal, 6+ hour ride over hilly and twisty roads on a local bus without leg room even for me, we reached Dharamsala, home of thousands of refugees from Tibet and especially the Dalai Lama, who fled the Communist Chinese government in March 1959. India has allowed the Dalai Lama to set up a government in exile here and has supported his efforts to win freedom for Tibet for th ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more