Dalai Lama travels to remote Ladakh region bordering China

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prays during a religious talk at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India (AP)

The exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has arrived in India’s remote Ladakh region bordering China, where he received a rousing reception.

Thousands of people lined both sides of the road outside the airport in the cold desert region’s Leh town to welcome the Dalai Lama, who is touring outside his base in the northern Indian city of Dharmsala for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.