As Dalai Lama turns 90, BBC visits heart of Tibetan resistance to China

The BBC speaks to Tibetans as their spiritual exiled leader the Dalai Lama turns 90.

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It is a risky decision.

We are being followed by eight unidentified men. Even saying a few words to us in public could get him in trouble.

But he appears willing to take the chance. "Things here are not good for us," he says quietly.

This monastery in China's south-western Sichuan province has been at the centre of Tibetan resistance for decades - the world learned the name in the late 2000s as Tibetans set themselves on fire there in defiance of Chinese rule. Nearly two decades later, the Kirti monastery still worries Beijing.