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Crowds gather for Dalai Lama visit

Updated on 07 November 2009

Source PA News

Thousands of devout Buddhists poured into a remote Indian mountain town, arriving in packed trucks or on foot after trekking for miles along narrow paths for a rare chance to glimpse the Dalai Lama.

The Tibetan spiritual leader's week-long visit to the town of Tawang near the Chinese border, has been mired in a diplomatic squabble -- highlighting the growing friction between Beijing and New Delhi.

The neighbours have been embroiled in a border dispute over the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh since 1962, and China has decried the visit and demanded that India stop it.

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