Camel caravan entering the main gate of Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. Photographed during Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan’s visit to Tibet in 1942.

Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan went to Tibet as envoys of the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 and met the DalaiLama, then barely seven years old.

 

Brooke Dolan (second from left) and Ilya Tolstoy (right) with their monk-interpreter, Kusho Yonton Singhe, standing in front of a traditional Tibetan tent set up outside Lhasa for the expedition’s official greeting ceremony.

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