Penpa Tsering, the Sikyong (political leader) of the exiled Central Tibetan Administration, said the Dalai Lama had been “unfairly labeled with all kinds of names that really hurt the sentiment of all his followers. The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet. The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet