India: Dalai Lama's Ladakh visit irks China

The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, arrived in India's remote mountainous Ladakh region bordering China last week for a month-long visit. He received a rousing reception, with thousands of people lining up on both sides of the road outside the airport in the cold desert region's Leh town to welcome him. "Tibet and Ladakh share rich cultural and religious ties. The people of Ladakh —including Buddhists, Muslims and Christians — have huge respect for His Holiness, the Dalai Lama," Jigmat Paljor, one of Ladakh's leading student and social activists, told DW. "Buddhists consider him the spiritual head…