The exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai lama arrived in sensitive Zanaskar region of ladakh on Tuesday on a three-day visit. The arrival attains significance in the backdrop of communal tension between two communities of the mountainous region in Kargil district of Jammu & Kashmir.
last year several families of the majority community converted to another religion leading to tension in the region.
A Minister in the Omar Abdullah Government who met with the Buddhist spiritual leader said that he pleaded with 14th Dalai lama to play a vital role in maintaining the age old tradition of communal harmony in ladakh region, especially in Zanaskar. Thousands of devotees lined up on both sides of the road as Dalai lama travelled from helipad to Photang, his residence in Zanaskar.