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Dalai Lama 'well' after arm pain | |
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The Dalai Lama has left a hospital in the Indian capital, Delhi, after doctors diagnosed him with having a pinched nerve in one of his arms. | |
He was taken for a check-up after complaining of discomfort in his arms. | |
A spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said the 73-year-old Dalai Lama would return to his headquarters in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala. | |
The spokesman, Tenzin Takhla, said the Dalai Lama would go ahead with a visit to Italy and Germany at the weekend. | |
"His holiness was suffering from a pinched nerve in his arm and that must have happened because of some sudden movement or a wrong posture," Tenzin Taklha said. | |
"He has been released from hospital and he will take some medication... All is now well and we are going back to Dharamsala on Tuesday." | |
The news will come as a relief to millions of Tibetans who revere the Dalai Lama and look to him for both spiritual and political leadership, says Damian Grammaticas, the BBC's South Asia correspondent in Delhi. | |
In October, the exiled Dalai Lama had surgery to remove a gallstone. | |
He has lived in Dharamsala, in northern India, since fleeing Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. |