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Tibet Overview: HH Dalai Lama
Biography | International Appeals | The Great Escape | Dalai Lama books
A soldier's clothes and a fur cap had been left for me, and about half past nine I took off my monk's habit and put them on. And then, in that unfamiliar dress, I went to my prayer room for the last time. I sat down on my usual throne and opened the Lord Buddha's teachings which lay before it, and I read to myself until I came to a passage in which Lord Buddha told a disciple to be of good courage. Then I closed the book blessed the room, and turned down the lights. As I went out, my mind was drained of all emotion.
Finally, after three bitter weeks crossing numerous snow-capped passes the exhausted entourage reached Mangmang the last village in Tibet before entering Assam, India.
My followers helped me onto the broad back of a dzo, the cross between a yak and a cow, which is an equable animal with an easy gait; and on that primeval Tibetan transport, I left my country. There was nothing dramatic about our crossing of the frontier. The country was equally wild on each side of it, and uninhabited. I saw it in a daze of sickness and weariness and unhappiness deeper than I can express.
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Dalai Lama and his younger brother
during their escape
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