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Dalai Lama gets a rousing welcome at Tawang

Sun, 2009-11-08 04:37 — Robyn

By Syed Zarir Hussain, Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), Nov 8 : The Dalai Lama arrived in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh Sunday to a rousing reception by hundreds of monks and the resonating sound of gongs and cymbals.

The spiritual leader of the Tibetans who has thousands of followers around the world arrived at this picture-pretty town perched at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet, close to the border with China, on a weeklong visit to this mountainous state of about one million people.

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