Full Coverage: Tibet’s Road Ahead

Gonpo Tso was born a princess.

By the time Dongtuk arrived, the body was gone.

Tsomo escaped Tibet last year on a zipline that carried her into Nepal over a chasm of jagged rocks and a river gushing white as frothing milk.

To hear the Dalai Lama laugh, his face lighting up in a beatific smile, it is easy to forget the cascade of disasters endured by the Tibetan Buddhist movement over the course of his life.