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Harrer first met the 14th Dalai Lama when he was summoned to the Potala Palace and asked to make a film about ice skating, which Harrer had introduced to Tibet. [10] Harrer built a cinema for him, with a projector run off a Jeep engine.
Harrer and Aufschnaiter then traveled across Tibet to Lhasa, the capital. Here they spent several years, and Harrer describes the contemporary Tibetan culture in detail. Harrer subsequently became a tutor and friend of the 14th Dalai Lama .
A Lasting Friendship: A Film of His Holiness, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and Austrian explorer, Heinrich Harrer, in Hüttenberg, Austria, 1992. For more infor...
Sep 30, 1997 · Harrer stayed for five years, eventually becoming a friend and tutor to the teenage Dalai Lama. In 1951, soon after the Chinese Communists invaded Tibet, Harrer left.
An Austrian mountaineer and renowned explorer, Harrer was best known for the years he spent as an adviser, teacher and friend of a young Dalai Lama. He was author of Seven Years in Tibet… a chronicle of his experience with the Dalai Lama over the seven years prior to his exile to India.
Jan 10, 2006 · We Tibetans will always remember Heinrich Harrer and will miss him greatly. 'My prayers are with you and your family.' His Holiness the Dalai Lama sent the condolence message on 10 January 2006 from Amaravati whre he is currently giving the Kalachakra teachings to over 100,000 people.
Jan 8, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who fled a British prisoner of war camp in India for the northern Himalayas, where he befriended and tutored the Dalai Lama, has...
