In March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama left the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in the dead of night to flee from Mao Zedong’s Communist regime. Over the course of the next seven decades, the Dalai Lama has ...

Protests erupted here during the Tibet-wide uprising of 2008 after, by some accounts, a monk held up a photo of the Dalai Lama inside the Kirti monastery. It eventually escalated into a riot and ...

Further protests were then held by the monks from the monastery, whose name in Chinese the source gave as Longwu. The source did not know the precise reason for the latest detentions.