Laura Bicker China correspondent Reporting fromAba, Sichuan province Xiqing Wang/ BBC The BBC visited the Kirti monastery in Aba, which has long been the heart of Tibetan resistance to Beijing Shrouded in crimson robes, prayer beads moving rhythmically past his fingers, the monk walks towards us. It is a risky decision. We are being followed...
Getty Images As the Dalai Lama turns 90, he has confirmed that he will have a successor when he dies In March 1959, as Chinese troops crushed an attempted uprising in Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled into India. Then a young man in his mid-20s, the future must have seemed bleak. With...
