Dalai Lama not to appoint Tawang Monastery abbot
The Dalai Lama has in a first said that he will no longer appoint the abbot for the 336-year-old Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh. Earlier, Guru Tulku Rimpoche, a student of the Tibetan Spiritual leader who had been appointed the abbot had resigned from the post citing recent violence in Tawang and politicisation of the Monastery. 