Tibetan diaspora

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The Tibetan diaspora are Tibetan people residing outside Tibet and mainland China. The diaspora mostly consists of Tibetans exiled from Tibet, their land of origin, to other nation states to live as immigrants and refugees in communities. The diaspora of Tibetan people began in the early 1950s, peaked after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, and continues to exist. Tibetan emigration has historically proceeded in waves, although the diaspora began growing when Tibetans began escaping from Kham in the early and mid 1950's, and moving to India. The internal migration of masses of Tibetans from Amdo and Kham to Lhasa and central Tibet also occurred at this time, before the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Lhasa. The first wave followed the March 1959 escape by the 14th Dalai Lama from Lhasa to Himachal Pradesh, India, before he eventually settled in Dharamsala. The second wave occurred in the 1980s, when China's Central Government partially eased its controls, including entry and egress from Tibet. A third...

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