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Dalai Lamas May 20th 2013, 11:03 Thubten Gyatso was born in 1876 and died in 1933. He is remembered as the Great Thirteenth. Thubten Gyatso assumed leadership in Tibet in 1895. At that time Czarist Russia and the British Empire had been sparring for decades over control of Asia. In the 1890s the two empires turned their attention eastward, to Tibet. A British force invaded in 1903, leaving after extracting a short-lived treaty from the Tibetans. China invaded Tibet in 1910, and the Greath Thirteenth fled to India. When the Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1912, the Chinese were expelled. In 1913, the 13th Dalai Lama declared Tibet's independence from China. The Great Thirteenth worked to modernize Tibet, although he didn't accomplish as much as he hoped.

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