Mussoorie
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Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about 26 kilometres from the state Winter capital Dehradun and 289 km north of the
View of Mussoorie in winter, with the Doon Valley in the distance
Landour Bazaar in the 1890s
A view of the Kempty Falls from the top of the hill. Kempty Fall is 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mussoorie along Kempty Fall Road.
Another view from top of a hill
14th Dalai Lama
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The 14th Dalai Lama is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959, and subsequently
Mussoorie
…in nearby Dehradun, where Nehru's sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit ultimately settled full-time. On 20 April 1959, during the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion, the 14th Dalai Lama took up residence at Mussoorie, this until April 1960 when he relocated to Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, where the Central Tibetan Administration is…
The Dalai Lama in 2012
The Dalai Lama as a child
House where the 14th Dalai Lama was born in Taktser, Amdo
Lhasa's Potala Palace, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site, 2019