Dalai Lama Returns to Dharamshala After Six-Week Stay in Ladakh

DHARAMSHALA: Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama returned to his permanent residence in Dharamshala on Tuesday afternoon after completing a six-week stay in Ladakh and a brief five-day visit to Delhi. Despite heavy rainfall and rough weather, the 90-year-old spiritual leader was accorded a warm and grand welcome by thousands of Tibetans, devotees, and well-wishers who gathered at Gaggal Airport and later near his official residence in Mecleodganj .