Dalai Lama hospitalised with abdominal pains: doctorThe Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (dä`lī lä`mə) [Tibetan,=oceanic teacher], title of the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed like his predecessors to be the incarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, 1935–, has been hospitalised due to abdominal pain Abdominal pain can be one of the symptoms associated with transient disorders or serious disease. Making a definitive diagnosis of the cause of abdominal pain can be difficult, because many diseases can result in this symptom. Abdominal pain is a common problem. and could undergo surgery on Friday, a senior doctor told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. , but his spokesman insisted that he was only undergoing "routine tests." The spiritual leader was admitted to a state-run New Delhi hospital on Thursday following media reports that abdominal pains for which he had spent four days in a Mumbai hospital in August had recurred. A senior doctor at New Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is a hospital in Pakistan. Originally started by Sir Ganga Ram, a Civil Engineer in the British Government at Lahore, Pakistan in 1921. In 1946 the family of Sir Ganga Ram started a medical college by the name Balak Ram medical College named after a son of , who did not wish to be identified, told AFP that the Dalai Lama, a former Nobel peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. winner, had been hospitalised. "He was admitted when he complained of abdominal pain and now chances are that the Dalai Lama will be operated upon, most probably tomorrow (Friday)," the doctor said. Hospital chief Nalini Kaul declined to comment on the Dalai Lama's health or what treatment he would receive but the Press Trust of India Press Trust of India (प्रेस ट्रस्ट ऑफ़् इंडिया, भाषा)is a nonprofit cooperative among the Indian newspapers. , quoting unnamed sources, also said the monk was likely to be operated upon on Friday. However, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama dismissed the report of surgery and said that the spiritual leader was undergoing "routine tests." The Buddhist monk had been scheduled to return to his home-in-exile in northern India on Thursday, but spokesman Tenzin Takhla told AFP that the 73-year-old would now remain in hospital at least until Saturday. "There is nothing to worry about as His Holiness is undergoing routine tests for which he had to be hospitalised," Takhla said, rejecting the reports of surgery. 
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