Complex sentence: Meanwhile the Dalai Lama visited Kumbum Monastery and then travelled via Xining to Beijing, where he was granted an audience with the young Chinese Emperor, he knelt in front of the Empress Dowager and the young Emperor but did not kowtow.
Split into simpler sentences: Meanwhile the Dalai Lama visited Kumbum Monastery and then travelled via Xining to Beijing. He was granted an audience with the young Chinese Emperor and knelt in front of the Empress Dowager and the young Emperor but did not kowtow.