When Tibet became aware of the colonial designs of European powers on central Asia in the 19th century, she expelled westerners and closed her frontiers. As isolation set in, so did Tibet's allure and mystique. But in the early 1900s, Francis Younghusband, a British colonialist, managed to penetrate the capital city of Lhasa, and end the country's years of seclusion.
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