This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising. The movement was suppressed ... over a thousand years. In 1959, the Tibetans rebelled against China's harsh rule.

For many people, 1959 is just a number, or perhaps a date in a textbook. But for those who witnessed events in Tibet that year, it remains an indelible memory after half a century. Gyaga Losang ...

Here's how it happened. On the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation, we must put Tibetan rights center stage in U.S. foreign policy once again. With the U.S ...

Fleeing the failed uprising in 1959 by the region's feudalistic upper ... visit the 50th Anniversary of Democratic Reforms in Tibet exhibition in Beijing, China, on March 25, 2009.

Numerous peaceful demonstrations were held in remembrance of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising — when the 14th Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet — but the Chinese government cracked down on the monks and nuns ...

The 88-year-old Dalai Lama has made the Indian hillside town of Dharmsala his headquarters since fleeing from Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. India considers Tibet to ...

The Dalai Lama fled to India in early 1959, following a failed uprising against Chinese rule. Since then, he has led the Tibetan government-in-exile and maintained his spiritual leadership for Tibetan ...