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The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai LamaHe was hospitalized Tuesday in a hospital in the Indian capital, New Delhi, due to a lung infection, revealed one of his advisers.

"His sanctity was a little bad this morning in Dharamsala, as a precaution, we came to New Delhi"he said Tenzin Taklha, private secretary of the Dalai Lama, in statements to the local press collected by the DPA agency.

Dharamsala is a city in northern India located in Kangra District, in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

The spokesman added that he had been diagnosed with a lung infection and that he would remain hospitalized "two or three days" for "receive medical treatment."

The 83-year-old Dalai Lama returned to Dharamsala on Monday after several meetings in the Indian capital on Sunday.

China claims that Tibet has been an integral part of its territory for years and insists that the Dalai Lama is a "separatist" He wore a monk's tunic and asked foreign leaders not to meet him, even on a personal basis.