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Tibetan Government-in-Exile
The Tibetan Government-in-Exile is a reconstituted form of the Ganden Podrang government that now resides in Dharamshala, India. In 1951, Tibet was formally incorporated into the People’s Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). In 1959, an uprising against the Chinese communist rule led to the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and surviving members of the Tibetan government flight to India, where they rebuilt a government-in-exile, with a democratically elected parliament (Tib. kashag) and a president. In 2011, The Dalai Lama formally relinquished his political leadership role in Tibetan exile government. This government represents the roughly 150,000 Tibetans who form an exiled diaspora in India, Nepal, and worldwide.
