THE DALAI LAMA BACKS KARMAPA LAMA, SEEKS PROBE

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The Dalai Lama backs Karmapa Lama, seeks probe.

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, backs the Karmapa Lama and calls for a thorough probe into the seizure of millions of rupees in at least 25 different currencies during a recent raid at his north Indian monastery.

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BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA (JANUARY 30, 2011) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)

1. EXILED TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER THE DALAI LAMA STANDING OUTSIDE HIS OFFICIAL CAR

2. THE DALAI LAMA INTERACTING WITH DEVOTEES

3. THE DALAI LAMA’S CAR DRIVING TOWARDS MEDIA PERSONS

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) THE DALAI LAMA, EXILED TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER, SAYING: “Karmapa, one of the important lama, he has many devotees, and naturally these devotees including men from China and some business Chinese. Also you see…he saw devotees, and some money was naturally received by him. I think some sort of negligence…I think better now thorough investigation.”

DHARAMSALA, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA (RECENT) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)

5. POLICEMEN SEARCHING MONKS AT THE MONASTERY OF TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER KARMAPA LAMA

6. CURRENCY COUNTING MACHINE

7. POLICE OFFICIALS STANDING NEAR SEALED METAL BOX

STORY: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Sunday (January 30) backed the Karmapa Lama and called for a thorough probe into the seizure of millions of rupees in at least 25 different currencies during a recent raid at his north Indian monastery.

Stressing on the need for a probe into the case, the Dalai Lama conceded there had been some “negligence” on part of the monastery officials.

“Karmapa, one of the important lama, he has many devotees, and naturally these devotees including men from China and some business Chinese. Also you see…he saw devotees, and some money was naturally received by him. I think some sort of negligence…I think better now thorough investigation,” said the Dalai Lama, on a visit to India’s southern Bangalore city.

Recently, police had raided the monastery of the Karmapa Lama in northern Dharamshala hill town and recovered a huge sum of foreign currency, estimated to be worth 60 million rupees ($1.30 million).

Even as a three-member police team grilled the Karmapa Lama over the source of the funds media reports said intelligence agencies were puzzled whether he could be a Chinese mole.

The Karmapa Lama, who escaped from China and emerged in India in the year 2000, lives in exile along with the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, the centre of the self-proclaimed Tibetan government-in-exile.

Karmapa Lama is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and is the third most important leader in Tibetan hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama.0