Karmapa plea for sightseeing rejected

Chandigarh, April 12: The Chandigarh police today disallowed the teenaged Tibetan buddhist monk, Ogyen Trinley Dorjee, from undertaking a sightseeing tour of Chandigarh for security reasons, his private secretary said.

Dorjee, who fled Tibet and reached India in January, was admitted to a hospital here for some pathological tests. He is "hale and hearty," the private secretary S G Drongpa told PTI.

He said the young monk was now waiting to be airlifted to Dharamsala, the headquarters of the "Tibetan government-in-exile".

The officiating medical superintendent of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Dr D Behera, said though the Karmapa is fine "we will like to keep him for observation in the hospital for a couple of days".