Author(s): Gaby Naher

Travel Narratives

When a 14-year-old Tibetan refugee escaped from Tibet across the Himalayas to India in January 2000, China lost its best hope of one day controlling the Tibetan people. The boy was the 17th Karmapa - Ogyen Trinley Dorje - already a major religious figure and the only incarnate lama to be recognised by both the Dalai Lama and the secular People