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1940: Tibet
The outstanding event of the year 1940 in Tibet was the installation on Feb. 22 of Ling-erh Tanchu, the six-year old Chinese boy from Kokonor, as temporal head of the only theocracy in the world today. He will be the fourteenth Dalai Lama to rule Tibet, and is believed by the Tibetans to be the...
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