Dalai Lama is a liar: China

Beijing, Nov 7: As he prepared to visit Arunachal Pradesh, China's official media launched another attack on the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, calling him a "liar" accusing him of aiming to split China and disrupt the development of Tibet.

Criticising as "nonsense," the Dalai Lama's reported statement that "there exists fear in Tibet," the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, said it only showed that the Tibetan "spiritual" leader was pursuing a hidden agenda to split China.

"This nonsense only reveals the hollowness and self- deceiving gimmicks deep inside the lama's heart. As an economically thriving Tibet had drawn increasing attention from the world, the Dalai Lama could only see his hidden scheme to disrupt China's unity gradually falling apart," it said.

The Dalai Lama, currently in Japan, is scheduled to visit Tawang monastery in Arunachal Pradesh on November 8 on what he has said is a spiritual, and not political, trip.

China has asked India to stop the 74-year-old Tibetan monk from visiting Arunachal.