Since Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, more than 100,000 Tibetans fled into exile into India, following their spiritual leader Dalai Lama. This flow continues to this day: by UNCR data, each year, around 3000 Tibetans make the dangerous crossing by foot over the Himalayas. For many of them, the main purpose of escape is to see their religious leader, the Dalai Lama. A high percentage of refugees are children sent by parents to study in Tibetan exile schools, and monks seeking to practice their religion due to persecution in Tibet.
There are numbers of refugee camps in India, but most of Tibetans have settled in Dharamsala, now the home for Dalai Lama, and Bylakkupe, in the south of India, where refugees together with monks have built “Small Tibet” inside the jungles. Being the Buddhists, Tibetans accept any flow of life given, but even 50 years after, they still believe in possibility to come back, to their bellowed “snow” land...
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