Arunachal, Feb 24:
The Arunachal Pradesh government is developing the escape trail of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai
Lama, from where he entered India, into a spiritual and religious tourism circuit.
Little-known Lumla in western Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district would soon be on the national
tourism map. The young Dalai Lama had passed through, even stayed, in this area during his escape
from Lhasa to India in 1959.
The project is being executed by the Public Works Department. “We are developing the escape trail of
His Holiness into a religious and spiritual tourism circuit which is going on. As many as five monoliths will
be constructed in each place where the Dalai Lama spent the night during his journey to India from
Tibet”, Tsering Lhamu the Lumla MLA told PTI.
On March 31, 1959, the Dalai Lama and a group of eight people along with another group of eighty
people were received officially at Khen-Dze-Mani by the political officer of Tawang, the 5 Assam Rifles
and the people of Zemithang.
A small gate known as ‘Lhasa Dwar’, the point where the Dalai Lama entered India, is marked by the
‘Holy Tree’, which is said to have grown from a staff dug by the Dalai Lama. It is now worshipped as a
relic marking the historic event.
