The Tibetans: Two Perspectives on Tibetan-Chinese Relations: Issue 49, Part 1
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Chris Mullin is a British journalist who has specialized in Tibetan affairs, writing mainly in The Guardian. He has visited Tibetan exiles in India and Nepal and interviewed the Dalai Lama on three occasions. He visited Tibet in September I 980. He is now the editor of Tribune.
Phuntsog Wangyal was born and brought up in Tibet, and went into exile in India in 1959, where he continued his studies, gaining an M.Phil. in Political Science and International Relations, and later teaching at J awaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He was Assistant Director of the Library ofTibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, North India, in 1974, and taught Tibetan at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1976. In 1980, he spent three months in Tibet as a member of the Dalai Lama's second fact-finding delegation. He is the Director of the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London.
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