Dalai Lama ‘doing fine’ after urgent hospitalisation in New Delhi

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is said to be recovering well after having been hospitalised with a chest infection. He is expected to remain under observation for a number of days.

According to personal secretary Tenzin Taklha, the Dalai Lama was flown to New Delhi for a check-up with the Dalai Lama’s press secretary, Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa, later adding that he was “doing fine”.

The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in early 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, lives in exile in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala.

Many of the up to 100,000 Tibetans living in India are worried that their fight for a genuinely autonomous homeland would end with the death of the Dalai Lama.

China, which took control of Tibet in 1950, brands the Nobel peace laureate a dangerous separatist and has said its leaders have the right to approve the Dalai Lama’s successor, as a legacy inherited from China’s emperors.

Via South China Morning Post