Dalai Lama: 'Chairman Mao saw me as a son'
The Dalai Lama has said that the former Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong treated him "as a son" when they met in the spiritual leader's youth.
In an interview with The Andrew Marr Show, he spoke of their warm relationship and also joked about Chairman Mao's smoking habit.
24 Jun 2012
- From the section Asia