The Dalai Lama: Six Decades of Spiritual Leadership

A Vote for Change
Communist China announced on March 28, 1959, that it had deposed the Dalai Lama and set up a new government in Tibet under the Panchen Lama. In this September 1954 picture, the Panchen Lama, center, is shown casting his vote alongside the Dalai Lama during the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

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