Tibetan Monastery (Majnu ka tila)
Buddhist monastery and spiritual heart of a Tibetan exile community in north India.
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This guide to the Tibetan monastery at Majnu ka Tila in Delhi traces the 1959 uprising in Lhasa and the Dalai Lama's escape across the Himalayas, and follows the refugees who settled on a strip of scrubland by the Yamuna River and named it Samyeling. You'll hear how the Drepung Loseling Monastery's gompa became the settlement's spiritual center, and about the eviction fight the colony took to court decades later. It follows the community's second and third generations still learning a language their children can no longer study at home.
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