No, no no... This happened when the Dalai Lama & his followers were leaving Tibet for India due to the Chinese incursion into Tibet. The story is a kind of parable, if you will. Basically what it is saying is that we each have a choice. We can either hide from what scares us, or we can "walk toward it." This is something I struggle with in my own life... I would like to imagine that I am walking toward what scares me. But the cold, hard reality is I'm mostly hiding from it...