[DOC] [TLE] 1959 Tibetan uprising - Wikipedia [PAR] The 1959 Tibetan Uprising or 1959 Tibetan Rebellion began on 10 March 1959, 
when a revolt ... Tibetan exiles assert that threats to bomb the Potala Palace and 
the Dalai Lama ... When Mao Zedong read it on 18 February, he commented: ... 
This marked the beginning of the uprising in Lhasa, though Chinese forces had... [DOC] [TLE] History of Tibet (1950present) - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of Tibet from 1950 to the present started with the Chinese People's 
Liberation Army invading Tibet in 195051 ... Potala Palace ... In 1959 the 14th 
Dalai Lama fled Tibet to northern India where he established the Central .... The 
Chinese built highways that reached Lhasa, and then extended them to the 
Indian,... [DOC] [TLE] Tibet's history | Free Tibet [PAR] Tibetan army waves the Tibetan flag at a military parade in Lhasa, 1938 (credit ... 
Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa ... 
The uprising was brutally suppressed and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee ... 
China's 1950 invasion, the Tibetan Uprising of 1959 and the intense protests in 
2008. [DOC] [TLE] The Invasion of Tibet [PAR] The Communist Chinese invasion in 1950 led to years of turmoil, that ... The 
Dalai Lama, Tibet's political and spiritual leader, fled to India in 1959. He now 
lives among over 100,000 other Tibetan refugees and their government in exile. 
4. ... foot of the Potala Palace in Lhasa and Chinese Tang histories of the period 
confirm. [DOC] [TLE] Birth to Exile | The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama [PAR] His Holiness the Dalai Lama was born on 6 July 1935, and named Lhamo .... to 
the Potala Palace, where he was officially installed as the spiritual leader of Tibet. 
... Two months later, in October, news reached Lhasa that an army of 80,000 ... 
and America, His Holiness, in his last bid to avoid a full-scale Chinese invasion,... [DOC] [TLE] CHINESE TAKEOVER OF TIBET IN THE 1950s | Facts and Details [PAR] ChineseTrucks under Potala Palace On October 7, 1950, some 40,000 ... and 
isolated when the People's Liberation Army began its invasion in 1950, but ... 
Zhang Jinwu was sent to Lhasa as the first representative of Communist China in 
Tibet, he ..... On March 1, 1959, while the Dalai Lama was preoccupied with 
taking his... [DOC] [TLE] How and Why the Dalai Lama Left Tibet | TIME [PAR] Mar 17, 2015 ... March 17, 1959: The Dalai Lama flees Tibet for asylum in India. ... But when he 
was told to come to the Chinese military headquarters without ... the Dalai Lama's 
palace in Lhasa to keep him from being abducted, arrested or killed. ... to flee due 
to a failed attempt on his part to maintain the serfdom in the... [DOC] [TLE] Resistance and Revolution - Tibet Oral History Project [PAR] After the fall of Lhasa, over 3,000 guerrillas began to flee along with thousands .... 
At the age of 19, he left his monastery to travel to Lhasa and joined the Drepung 
Monastery there. ... Wangdu served as a Potala Palace guard from 1956 to 1959. 
... Monastic life, trade, invasion by Chinese army, Dalai Lama, thamzing, Chushi... [DOC] [TLE] Dalai Lama - Guide to Nobel Prize [PAR] During his reign the majestic winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, the Potala, was 
built in Lhasa. ... saw his country invaded by Gurkha troops from Nepal but 
defeated them with ... Chinese troops, and the Dalai Lama reigned as head of a 
sovereign state. ... He fled to exile in India in 1959, the year of the unsuccessful 
revolt by... [DOC] [TLE] Dalai Lama facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] The Dalai Lama fled his country and took safety in India in 1959 during the ... 
After this he was brought to the Potala palace in Lhasa, the capital of the country. 
... Eighty thousand members of the Chinese army invaded Tibet in early 1950. [DOC] [TLE] Q&A: The Dalai Lama, Tibet and China - NBC News [PAR] China, which has ruled Tibet

Question: He fled the Potala, his palace in Tibet, when Chinese forces invaded Lhasa in 1959
Answer: The Dalai Lama