Fifty Years of ExileDharmsala, India -- Samdhong Rinpoche fled Tibet in 1959 but he still remembers his homeland vividly. "My memories of my life in Tibet are more clear than my memories of yesterday," says the 70-year-old prime minister of the Tibetan exile government in this northern Indian hill town. "I remember the colors and shapes of the trees in our monastery and the friends we debated with," he recalls with a wistful smile.
Most stores and stalls near Jokhang Temple are closed in Lhasa, Tibet's capital city, Saturday, March 14, 2009. Paramilitary and plainclothes police blanketed the Tibetan capital with patrols and checkpoints Saturday, imposing what witnesses called a tense calm on the first anniversary of a violent anti-Chinese riot. (Photo: AP/Kyodo News)www.phayul.com
