EFE/DIARIO.ES: Dalai Lama will give talks during 10 days in Indian region disputed by China

EFE – New Delhi
23/03/2017

The Dalai Lama will visit between 4 and the 13 April four towns in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, that New Delhi and Beijing have been disputed for half a century, on a trip highly criticized by the Chinese authorities.

The Buddhist leader will spend most of his stay in Tawang, city ​​near the border with Tibet and disputed by China, where he will give talks and instruct those present about meditation or how to postpone achieving nirvana, one of its spokespersons told Efe today, Tenzin Taklha.

After staying in Tawang del 4 al 8 April, The Dalai Lama will travel to two other towns near the border with Bhutan, Dirang y Bomdila, before closing your trip in the regional capital, Itanagar, detailed the source.

In Itanagar, Tibetan spiritual leader to meet Arunachal Pradesh chief minister, Pema Khandu, and will offer a final round of teachings at a well-known monastery before leaving for New Delhi on the day 13.

Asked about the choice of these locations, el portavoz insistió en que el dalái lama "ha estado recibiendo invitaciones de todos estos lugares".

This is the fifth time he will go to the disputed Himalayan region, who last visited in 2009.

The sovereignty of Arunachal Pradesh has been claimed by India and China since practically the creation of the Indian state and was the trigger for a brief war between the two Asian powers in 1962.

China and India try to reduce tensions over this conflict through regular rounds of negotiations, although mutual accusations of military incursions in the border area are frequent.

While India controls Arunachal Pradesh, claimed by China, The communist regime de facto administers another area disputed by both, Aksai Chin, on the western border of the two countries and part of the historic region of Kashmir.