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Karmapa Lama flees to India
The 17th Karmapa Lama has fled from China to India, ruffling diplomatic feathers all round
The 17th Karmapa Lama, a 14-year-old-leader of a major Tibetan school of Buddhism has fled from China to India, ruffling diplomatic feathers all round.
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