Dalai Lama cancels European tour on health grounds

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has cancelled his tour next month of Germany and Switzerland for health reasons, his office said yesterday.
The Dalai Lama has been told by his doctors to rest after being recently hospitalised for with abdominal pains although "his general health condition is good," his office said.
"We are cancelling his tour to allow him more rest and so that he doesn't feel weak immediately again" after his hospitalisation, the Dalai Lama's secretary Tenzin Taklha told AFP.
The Dalai Lama had been due to travel to Germany and Switzerland on October 10 for two weeks to give Buddhist teachings and lectures.