I See Dalai Lama - Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

I see the Dalai Lama and think of
The Tibetan form of Buddhism,
Buddhistic rituals and practices,
Monasteries and places of visit,
Tibetan life, art and culture,
Thought and tradition,
Text and treatise,
The history of the land and culture.

How did the teachings of Buddha and Buddhism
Reach far off even then
When it had been impregnable
To journey and transgress into the domains
Exotic and alien?