Article: Dalai Lama's Nepal office closed.(World Briefs)(the 11th Panchen Lama given instructions)

KATHMANDU -- Nepal has closed the contact office of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan refugee welfare center in Kathmandu. The official reason was that they were operating without government registration, but Nepalese newspapers said the office and the center, which look after the interests of 30,000 Tibetan refugees in Nepal, were closed to appease the Chinese government. The Tibetan spiritual leader fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in ...

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