THERE IS NO CHINA:

In 1959, thousands of Tibetans took to the streets, protesting Chinese rule. The demonstrations would later become known as the Lhasa Uprising.

March 10 marked the start of a dramatic change in the lives of Tibetan people - the then 23-year-old Dalai Lama secretly fled into exile in India.

Sixty years later, in cities around Australia, hundreds of Tibetans and Tibet supporters marched to show their solidarity against China's occupation.

Marching from Martin Place to the Chinese embassy in Sydney, demonstrators told SBS News China's crackdown against Tibetan culture continues.

"China wants the Tibetan people to owe their allegiances to the Chinese Communist Party, and not the Dalai Lama," Ms Dhongdue said.

In 2011, the Dalai Lama transferred his political power to a democratically elected leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Ms Dhongdue believes this move was significant for the Tibetan resistance.

"It was to make sure that when the Dalai Lama dies, the Tibet issue doesn't die too," Ms Dhongdue said.

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