1642 Gushri Khan enthrones the fifth DALAILAMAas
temporal ruler of Tibet.1904 British troops enter Tibet and occupy Lhasa.1912 Thub bstan rgya mtsho (Thubten Gyatso;
1876–1933), the thirteenth Dalai Lama, proclaims
Tibet a “religious and independent nation.”1940 The five-year-old Bstan ’dzin rgya mtsho (Tenzin
Gyatso) is enthroned as the fourteenth Dalai Lama.1950 Chinese Communist troops invade Tibet.1959 The Dalai Lama flees to India; thousands of Tibetans
die in anti-Chinese revolt.1989 The Dalai Lama receives the Nobel Peace Prize.1995 The Dalai Lama recognizes six-year-old Dge ’dun
chos kyi nyi ma (Gedhun Choekyi Nyima) as the
eleventh PANCHENLAMA. China denounces the choice,
in favor of Rgyal mtshan nor bu (Gyaltsen Norbu).2000 The seventeenth KARMA PA, O rgyan ’phrin las rdo rje
(Orgyan Trinle Dorje), flees Tibet to join the Dalai
Lama in exile at Dharamsala, India.TIBET AND THEHIMALAYAS