When the new ROC government apologised for the actions of the Qing and offered to restore the Dalai Lama to his former position, he replied that he was not interested in Chinese ranks, that Tibet had never been subordinated to China, that Tibet was an independent country, and that he was assuming the spiritual and political leadership of Tibet.

When Kangxi finally destroyed Galdan in 1696, a Qing ruse involving the name of the Dalai Lama was involved ; Galdan blamed the Dalai Lama ( still not aware of his death fourteen years earlier ) for his ruin.

When travelling in Tibet, Hayes met the Dalai Lama in 1987.

When Sonam Gyatso died in 1588, his incarnation-and thus, the new Dalai Lama-was " found " to be Altan Khan's great-grandson.

When Tsogtu sent 10, 000 men under his son Arslang against the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Arslang switched sides and supported the Dalai Lama.

When the mission reached Lhasa, the Dalai Lama had already fled to Urga in Mongolia, but a treaty was signed by lay and ecclesasiastical officials of the Tibetan government, and by representatives of the three monasteries of Sera, Drepung, and Ganden.

When they returned the next morning expecting the worst, they found their home untouched, and a pair of crows were caring for the Dalai Lama.

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When the Dalai Lama visited England later in the summer of 1996, members of the New Kadampa tradition staged pickets outside venues where the Dalai Lama was speaking, holding placards accusing the Dalai Lama of repressing religious freedom.

When he reached Lhasa he was enthroned as the Fourth Dalai Lama and initiated by Sangen Rinchen, the principal holder of Tsonkapa's lineage and ex-abbot of Gaden monastery.

When Lobsang Palden Yeshi, the Sixth Panchen Lama, heard about this boy, he pronounced that he was indeed the authentic reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.

When construction of the palace was started ( during the 7th Dalai Lama's period ) in the 1740s, the site was a barren land, overgrown with weeds and scrub and infested with wild animals.

When His Holiness the Dalai Lama is asked " what is the nature of the mindstream that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime?

When the 14th Dalai Lama fled from Tibet, he crossed into India on 30 March 1959 and spent some days resting at Tawang Monastery before reaching Tezpur in Assam on 18 April.

When I was in India I received an invitation from Manjushri Institute in England through Lama Yeshe, who was my very close friend in Tibet.

When he first met Lama Ngawang Kalzang, Govinda spoke no Tibetan and his description of the initiation is vague.

When the Ninth Panchen Lama died in 1937, two simultaneous searches for the tenth Panchen Lama produced two competing candidates, with the government in Lhasa ( who had selected a boy from Xikang ) and the Ninth Panchen Lama's officials ( who picked Tseten ) in conflict.

When Lhasa denied Gyaltsen the territory the Panchen Lama traditionally controlled, he asked Ma Bufang to help him lead an army against Tibet in September 1949.

When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.

When Pelopidas expressed indignation at the tales of Alexander's profligacy and cruelty, Alexander took alarm and fled.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.

When Jason came to know of this, Medea was already gone ; she fled to Athens in a chariot sent by her grandfather, the sun-god Helios.

When he heard the commotion from the senate chamber, Antony fled.

When the Amin regime was collapsing, he fled to Kenya with his family, fearful that he would be seen as a collaborator ; this was more likely because he was a member of the Langi tribe, many of whom were persecuted by Amin, whereas Akii-Bua was cited by Amin as an example of a Langi who was doing well.

When the VNQDD fled to China after the failed uprising against the French, they settled in Yunnan and Canton, in two different branches.

When he fled to Venice in 1499 he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack.

When the Taliban took power in 1996, all the warlords fled Kabul to the north or neighboring countries.

When Panama was colonized, the indigenous peoples who survived many diseases, massacres and enslavement of the conquest ultimately fled into the forest and nearby islands.

When Otto was carried off the field by his wounded and terrified horse, and Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, severely wounded, was captured by the French, the Flemish and Imperial troops saw that the battle was lost, turned and fled from the battlefield.

When the Eight-Nation Alliance's armies marched into Beijing, Cixi fled the capital only to accept peace terms by paying the foreign powers huge amounts of silver.

When Swedish colleagues feared for a possible German occupation, he managed to leave on a cargo ship, together with Ernst Cassirer ( the former rector of Hamburg University ) to New York City to become part of the wider community of intellectual émigrés who fled there.

When Stigand, who was acting as intermediary, conveyed the king's jest that Godwin could have his peace if he could restore Alfred and his companions alive and well, Godwin and his sons fled, going to Flanders and Ireland.

When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes in order to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

When they noticed the presence in the escort of the old battleship, HMS Ramillies, they fled the scene, rather than risk damage from her 15 " guns.

When a segment of his army fled from battle, abandoning their weapons, Crassus revived the ancient practice of decimation – i. e., executing one out of every ten men, with the victims selected by drawing lots.

When Sweyn Forkbeard seized the throne at the end of 1013 and Æthelred fled to France, the brothers do not appear to have followed him, but stayed in England.

When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it.

When James II fled at the Glorious Revolution, William refused to accept the title of king consort ( which Philip II of Spain had been granted under Queen Mary I in the 1550s ) and insisted on being named King in his own right.

When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from the Nationalist government, military, and business community, fled to Taiwan.

When under attack by Napoleon in 1805, Karl Wilhelm may have had the French Blue recut to disguise its identity ; in this form, the stone could have come to Britain in 1806, when his family fled there to join his daughter Caroline of Brunswick.