US President Barack Obama will meet on Saturday with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, defying warnings from China after calls built at home to welcome the monk, officials said.

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China on Saturday urged the US to immediately withdraw a decision to arrange US President Barack Obama's meeting with the exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama.

"The issue regarding Tibet concerns China's

Defying Chinese protest, US President Barack Obama on Saturday met Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House and shared ‘genuine concerns’ about human rights in Tibet. The meeting las

China on Thursday firmly opposed to the US having any official talks with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who is currently visiting America.

An oracle has predicted that the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will live to be 113, the Tibetan cabinet said on his 76th birthday on Wednesday.

The Tibetan government-in-exile here on Tuesday re-appointed the Dalai Lama’s envoys to China and other countries, the first time it exercised this constitutional authority after the Tibetan spiritual leader relinquished his political powers.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Thursday arrived in Melbourne from New Zealand. Many of Dalai Lama’s devotees greeted him and wore traditional Tibetan clothing and waved flags.

The Dalai Lama has formally relinquished his political powers "in a historic move" but will remain the symbol of Tibetan unity, a spokesman for the spiritual leader said on Monday.

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has devolved his 'formal authority' to the elected leadership of the Tibetan exiles, an official said here on Monday.

But he clarified that the Dalai Lama woul

Nearly three months after he pledged to give up political leadership of the Tibetans, the Dalai Lama has formally devolved powers to the new elected leaders of the Tibetan exiles.