The Leader and the Lamas. Mao with
the two leading Tibetan Buddhist figures, in Beijing in 1954: the
Dalai Lama (right) and the Panchen Lama. Their temporal power had
been ended by forcible intergration of Tibet into the People's
Republic in 1950, but Mao still felt the need to cultivate them at
this stage. Thee Dalai Lama took sanctuary in India after the failed
Tibetan uprising in 1959. Only after another five years did the
Panchen Lama speak out against Chinese policy in his homeland.
