
in 1720, at the invitation of the seventh Dalai Lama, soldiers of the Manchu emperor entered Lhasa, ''establishing for the first time the basis for considering Tibet as a protectorate of China.''
In 1953, the 13-year-old Schell was drawn into the fantasy of Tibet as ''a place in which a separate peace might prevail.'' He now understands that such fantasies obliterated ''the Tibet of filth, ferocity, arcane religious practices, grinding poverty, barren wastes, inhospitable weather, serfdom, disease and theocratic absolutism.'' These are aspects of Tibetan society before the Chinese occupation that the Dalai Lama himself does not deny.
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