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This is a short clip. The entire video is 70 min. For more details go to http://www.militaryvideo.com/store/store.cfm This Video contains two films. The first was produced by the OSS during WWII and documents the journey of a U.S. military and diplomatic mission from Gangtok, India, to Lhasa, Tibet during World War II. The party journeys through Natu La and Kechu La passes, stops at the British trail station, Gyantse, reviews troops of Tropji Regiment and is ferried across the Brahmaputra River. Scenes of Tibetan natives, terrain, travel facilities, housing,a New Year religious festival, the Dalai Lama's palaces in Lhasa, monasteries and other religious buildings. The second film produced in the 1950s looks at the communists take-over of Tibet. IT PORTRAYS THE BACKGROUND OF COMMUNIST INFILTRATION INT TIBET SINCE 1950, PROGRESSIVE AGGRESSION LEADING TO THE TAKE-OVER BY CHINA AND FLIGHT OF THE DALAI LAMA. INDICATES THE INDIAN REVERENCE FOR THE LAMA AND RE- SENTMENT AGAINST THE THREAT TO BUDDHISM.IN INDIA, HIGH-RANKING BUDDHIST MONK NGAWANG IHUTHOP, WHO HAS FLED FROM RED CHINESE PERSECUTION IN TIBET, DESCRIBES HARDSHIPS UNDER COMMUNISM. A RESUME OF THE STAND OF TIBET"S PEOPLE AGAINST THE REDS AND THE FLIGHT OF REFUGEES INTO INDIA IS GIVEN.

Category: Film
Uploaded: March 14th, 2007 @ 8:19 pm
Author: militaryvideocom

Length: 00:56
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Tags: dalai gangtok ihuthop india lama lhasa ngawang the tibet wwii

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