CHANGES IN TIBET’S ANCIENT CAPITAL.—A recent photograph from Lhasa showing, in the foreground, one of the new housing blocks erected near the Potala Palace, at back. Until 1959, when the Tibetan Government was dissolved by the Chinese, the Potala Palace was a monastery and the historic seat of the Dalai Lama, who fled to India, where he was granted political asylum.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31060, 16 May 1966, Page 7
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61CHANGES IN TIBET’S ANCIENT CAPITAL.—A recent photograph from Lhasa showing, in the foreground, one of the new housing blocks erected near the Potala Palace, at back. Until 1959, when the Tibetan Government was dissolved by the Chinese, the Potala Palace was a monastery and the historic seat of the Dalai Lama, who fled to India, where he was granted political asylum. Press, Volume CV, Issue 31060, 16 May 1966, Page 7
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