Dalai Lama, Border Guard Who Escorted Him Into India Have Emotional Reunion

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Dalai Lama, Border Guard Who Escorted Him Into India Have Emotional Reunion

The Dalai Lama (center-left) shakes hands with Naren Chandra Das (center-right), the lone known survivor of a group of seven Indian guards who escorted the Tibetan spiritual leader into India nearly 60 years ago, in Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern Indian Assam state, April 2, 2017.
NEW DELHI —

Nearly six decades after he fled his homeland, Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama had an emotional reunion on Sunday with the border guard who escorted him into India when he was 23 years old.

The Buddhist monk, now 81, met the border guard, Naren Chandra Das, who is 79, in Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern Indian Assam state, at a ceremony organized by the state government.

The Dalai Lama had trekked for two weeks across the Himalayas in 1959 disguised as a soldier and seeking asylum in India, following a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet.

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