Plate 2 The Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
The exiled Dalai Lama, head of Tibetan
Buddhism and believed to be an incarnation of
the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, teaches from a
throne in Bodh Gaya, India (see pp. 102–104).
Plate 3 Tibetan Buddhists listen to Dalai Lama.
Crowds of Tibetan Buddhists listen to teachings
of the Dalai Lama in Leh, India. The Chinese
People’s Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1950;
the Dalai Lama fled in 1959 (see pp. 102–104).
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