Dalai Lama meets man who escorted him to India 58 yrs ago

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today had an emotional reunion with one of the five Assam Rifles guards who escorted him to India during his escape from Tibet in March 1959.

The Dalai Lama embraced retired jawan Naren Chandra Das at an interactive session organised at the 'Namami Brahmaputra' River festival by the Assam government here.

"Thank you very much.... I am very very happy to meet such an old member of the Assam Rifles who guarded and escorted me to India 58 years ago," a visibly emotional Dalai Lama said on the occasion.

"Looking at your face, I now realise I must be very old too," he said to Das in jest.

Dressed in his Assam Rifles uniform, 76-year-old Das, later told

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