Rinpoche and his family fled Tibet shortly before the Chinese invasion of Tibet.

He fled Tibet at the age of 9 with the 16th Karmapa.

When the fighting spread to Lhasa in 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet.

Yungchen fled Tibet in 1989.

This ultimately resulted in the next Karmapa having to flee Tibet during the civil war which followed.

Her parents fled Tibet in 1959 for India.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet when China annexed the region in 1959.

Jamdrak set off with his brother in a party of 300 to flee Tibet.

Since another arrest seemed imminent, Namkha Rinpoche fled Tibet in 1998.

Pelgye Kelden fled Tibet as a child when the Chinese Army invaded.