"my life in forbidden lhasa" (1955) republished by national geographic
As seen in the film 'Seven Years in Tibet',
Austrian soldier Heinrich Harrer escaped from a British POW camp in India in World War II and ended up as the young Dalai Lama's tutor in Tibet. Harrer wrote about his cultural immersion for the July 1955 edition of National Geographic. Republished in the May 2008 special issue on China.
::link to national geographic story (17 pages)
There's much interesting information in this article on the young Dalai Lama and life in Tibet before the Chinese invasion.
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