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BEIJING — Despite protests by the Chinese government, the Dalai Lama is going ahead with plans to visit a heavily militarized Tibetan Buddhist area in northeast India that is the focus of an intense territorial dispute between China and India, a Tibetan official in India said Thursday.
The Dalai Lama, 74, Tibet’s spiritual leader, is expected to visit the state of Arunachal Pradesh from Nov. 8 to Nov. 15, the official said via e-mail. China views the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, as a separatist advocating Tibetan independence.
