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In India, a Tibetan Can Only Wait

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Nov 24, 2007
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Palden, who like many Tibetans goes by a single name, was a teenage monk when he was arrested in 1992 along with 16 others for staging a small demonstration on the main street of Lhasa. It earned him six years imprisonment for committing a “counter-revolutionary act.”

About 18 months ago Palden settled in Dharamsala the northern Ind…

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