Dharamsala, Sep 14 (Inditop.com) A US delegation Monday met Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in this north Indian town to finalise details of his proposed US visit next month, a Tibetan official said.
“The delegation met His Holiness at his official residence. The meeting lasted for more than two hours,” Tenzin Taklha, joint secretary at the Dalai Lama’s office, told Inditop.
He, however, declined to give any other information regarding the talks.
The delegation, led by White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, has been the highest official-level group to visit this town since March 2008 when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited here to meet the Buddhist monk.
The delegation met Tibetan-government-in-exile’s Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche and the Dalai Lama’s special envoy Lodi Gyari here Sunday.
The spiritual guru is scheduled to visit the US next month, where he is likely to meet President Barrack Obama, the official said.
Sources in the Dalai Lama’s office said that modalities regarding the meeting between the Buddhist monk and the US president “are being worked out”.
Dharamsala is the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile, which is not recognised by any country in the world.
A total of 140,000 Tibetans now live in exile, over 100,000 of them in different parts of India. Over six million Tibetans live in Tibet.
