"My Life in Forbidden Lhasa" (1955) republished by Nat Geo

Marilyn Terrell says:

Natgeo-tibet.jpg Austrian soldier Heinrich Harrer escaped from a British POW camp in India in World War II and ended up as the young Dalai Lama's tutor in Tibet. Harrer wrote about his cultural immersion for the July 1955 edition of National Geographic. Republished in the May 2008 special issue on China.

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See also:
Dream to have Dalai Lama carry the Olympic Torch