Travelling in places where Buddhist tradition and religion function away from their historical and religious boundaries, Bartek Solik/visavis.pl and Bartek Dobroch (weekly Tygodnik Powszechny) documented efforts of Tibetan refugees to kick off Chinese bondage and individual protests against limiting the freedom of speech and the right to demonstrate one’s views. In India the reporters visited Dharamsala, the seat of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile where they met with numerous refugees. They visited a Tibetan home for the elderly, a kindergarten and Dolanji, a village where tens of young Tibetans live and study in an orphanage supported by a Polish charity. In Nepal, during the second stage of their journey, the reporters reached Dhorpatan. There they listened to the stories of people who left their homeland in 1959 because of Chinese repressions and fled the country together with the Dalai Lama.
