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American singer Lady Gaga has reportedly been added to a list of hostile foreign forces banned by China's Communist party after she met the Dalai Lama.
The 30-year-old singer met the Tibetan spiritual leader before a conference in Indianapolis, reported Guardian online .
A video of the 19-minute encounter - in which they pondered over issues such as meditation, mental health and how to detoxify humanity - was posted on the singer's Facebook account.
The meeting sparked an angry reaction from Beijing, which has attacked the spiritual leader as a "wolf in monk's robes."
The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in March 1959, insists that he is merely seeking greater autonomy from Chinese rule for Tibetans.
But China's rulers consider him as a separatist who they claim is conspiring to split the Himalayan region from China in order to establish theocratic rule there.
Following Lady Gaga's meeting, the Communist Party's mysterious propaganda department issued "an important instruction" banning her entire repertoire from mainland China, Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily reported.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
The 30-year-old singer met the Tibetan spiritual leader before a conference in Indianapolis, reported Guardian online .
A video of the 19-minute encounter - in which they pondered over issues such as meditation, mental health and how to detoxify humanity - was posted on the singer's Facebook account.
The meeting sparked an angry reaction from Beijing, which has attacked the spiritual leader as a "wolf in monk's robes."
The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in March 1959, insists that he is merely seeking greater autonomy from Chinese rule for Tibetans.
But China's rulers consider him as a separatist who they claim is conspiring to split the Himalayan region from China in order to establish theocratic rule there.
Following Lady Gaga's meeting, the Communist Party's mysterious propaganda department issued "an important instruction" banning her entire repertoire from mainland China, Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily reported.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
