Karmapa plea for sightseeing rejected

Karmapa plea for sightseeing rejected
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Chandigarh, April 12: The Chandigarh police today disallowed the teenaged Tibetan buddhist monk, Ogyen Trinley Dorjee, from undertaking a sightseeing tour of Chandigarh for security reasons, his private secretary said.

Dorjee, who fled Tibet and reached India in January, was admitted to a hospital here for some pathological tests. He is "hale and hearty," the private secretary S G Drongpa told PTI.

He said the young monk was now waiting to be airlifted to Dharamsala, the headquarters of the "Tibetan government-in-exile".

The officiating medical superintendent of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Dr D Behera, said though the Karmapa is fine "we will like to keep him for observation in the hospital for a couple of days".

Earlier, doctors attending on him described as "allright" the tests carried out on the monk.

Asked about the fate of Karmapa's asylum petition lying with the Indian Government, Drongpa expressed the hope that New Delhi would give him asylum.