The Asian Age, 8 April 2008
Tibet worries Arunachal
Tawang: The Arunachal Pradesh government is concerned over developments in Tibet and have urged the sizeable Buddhist population in the state to maintain calm. "We are concerned about what is happening in Tibet ... We have ensured that calm prevails in the state," chief minister Dorjee Khandu told a group of visiting reporters here on Sunday. Tawang, the picturesque monastery town surrounded by snow-clad Himalayan peaks, has a dominant Buddhist population known as Monpas, who regard the Dalai Lama as their spiritual head...