The last soldier to accompany the young Dalai Lama on his escape from Tibet in 1959 also died.

The last survivor of the small group Ινδών soldiers who had accompanied him Dalai Llama after his escape from Lasas in 1959, he died at the age of 85, he announced on Friday (31/12) his battalion.

THE spiritual leader of the Tibetans, then a young monk and now 86 years old, escaped from Tibet in front of the advance of KChinese troops. Arrived at India after a course of two weeks in Himalayas, disguised as a soldier to escape from them Kινέζους troops.

THE Naren Chandra Das he was 22 years old at the time and had just completed his bodybuilding training Assam Rifles, the oldest (1835) paramilitary force of the Indian Army.

Accompany him Δalai Λάμα, along with six other soldiers, until Lumla in the Arunasal Pradesh, where they arrived on March 31, 1959.

The veteran had reported the operation to the local media last year: o Δalai Λάμα he was on horseback and Ινδοί soldiers on foot crossed the snow-capped mountain passes. The soldiers had no right to speak to the young monk during their march.

THE Δalai Λάμα, who lives in exile in the north India from his escape from Tibet which became a Chinese province in 1959, and the Naren Chandra Das met in April 2017, for the first time in 60 years.

“Looking at your face, I realize that I must be very old too,” he said Δalai Λάμα to the soldier during a ceremony in the city Guachati, in the east India.

Next year, the Naren Chandra Das was invited to Daramsala, a city at the foot of the Indian Himalayan where ο Δalai Λάμα has installed his exiled government Tibet with his permission New Delhi. “I went with my family and he hugged me. He also gave me a souvenir. “I will never forget our meeting,” he said Naren Chandra Das.