Switzerland. Canton Bern. Muri. Thubten Purang stands on the sidewalk in front of his home where he has hanged a tibetan flag. A cyclist rides on the concrete road. The swiss tibetan man is an Aeschimann's child who arrived 50 years ago in Switzerland to receive custody on a private initiative by an influential Swiss industrialist, Charles Aeschimann. In 1962, Charles Aeschimann agreed with the Dalai Lama to take 200 children and place them in Swiss foster homes and give them a chance for a...
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Switzerland. Canton Bern. Muri. Thubten Purang stands on the sidewalk in front of his home where he has hanged a tibetan flag. A cyclist rides on the concrete road. The swiss tibetan man is an Aeschimann's child who arrived 50 years ago in Switzerland to receive custody on a private initiative by an influential Swiss industrialist, Charles Aeschimann. In 1962, Charles Aeschimann agreed with the Dalai Lama to take 200 children and place them in Swiss foster homes and give them a chance for a better life and a good education. Most of the children still had parents in exile or in Tibet, just a few were orphans. The Tibetan flag, also known as the "snow lion flag" and the 'Free Tibet flag', was a flag of the military of Tibet, introduced by the 13th Dalai Lama in 1912 and used for the same capacity until 1959. Designed with the help of a Japanese priest, it reflects the design motif of the Japanese military's Rising Sun Flag. Since the 1960s, it is used a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement. 24.02.2015 © 2015 Didier Ruef
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