Eryk Bagshaw, Sydney Morning Herald – 7 July 2021

Venerable Bagdro, the Tibetan monk, sits alone in the former Catholic monastery in Mayfield.

The orange trumpet vines are persisting through the Newcastle winter, so too are the relics on his mantelpiece that have travelled with him from Lhasa to country NSW. University students fill the other 42 rooms in the Redemptorist monastery turned dormitory.

It is quieter here than the Tibetan jail where he was tortured by Chinese guards, the French hospital where he was evacuated to with the help of a former French first lady, and the temples of Dharamshala where the Dalai Lama would resist his calls to turn to violence against Chinese occupation.

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