[angkor]

The Dalai Lama has always been under threat from Chinese crazies, as well as from your garden variety loose nuts.

In a documentary of a year or so back, these were several shots of the DL being flanked by 4 to 6 big guys in his entourage wearing suits and ties, all with those small Uzi machine pistols (or equivalent) tucked under their jackets. They looked like serious characters.

[sukhoi-30mki]

The Dalai Lama has more than 2 layers of protection.Starting with specially trained Tibetan guards,local Indian police as well as Indian central Intelligence agencies.

& probably these folks too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Frontier_Force

[Abathar]

Maybe Richard Gere will be standing with him and do a Secret Service bullet catch,

But without the vest.....