1:40:14
"General Tan Kuan San wishes to invite
the Dalai Lama to a dance recital...
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at the newly erected Great Hall
of the Liberation Army."
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- A dance?
- Yes.
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"And because of the climate
in Lhasa, General Tan requests...
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that the Dalai Lama come
without his bodyguards."
1:40:37
"One attendant is fine," it says.
They would like to provide him.
1:40:41
Yes, I'm sure they would.
1:40:45
It's no time to anger
the Chinese, Phala.
1:40:48
There are tanks in the streets.
Airplanes wait outside Lhasa.
1:40:52
I think we can safely say the Chinese
are already angry, Holiness.
1:41:00
What would you do,
my friend?
1:41:04
I am only a bug, Holiness.
1:41:09
Holiness,
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I would think of what survival
for Tibet really means...
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in the years to come.
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I would consider my duty
to protect my people.
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And so,
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I would leave now...
for lndia.
1:41:30
But I won't do that.
1:41:32
So, write them. Say I am sorry
to miss their dance.
1:41:35
Another time, maybe.
1:41:38
Tell them to write me often.
1:41:42
I know it's a lie.
But times are bad.
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As you say.
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You know, Kundun,
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I would never have
let you go alone.
1:41:54
Don't ask me
to leave Tibet, Phala.
1:41:58
I won't ask you today, Holiness.