Thousands approach the Dalai Lama each year to seek his blessings, but do some have murder in mind?

The Dalai Lama made news this weekend when he told UK weekly, the Sunday Telegraph that he had been warned the Chinese government was training female assassins in the arts of poison in order to have him killed.

Allegedly, the assassins would embed the poisons in scarves or their hands, and when approaching the Dalai Lama to seek his blessing, their trap would be sprung.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted strongly against the Dalai Lama’s allegations, accusing him of “spreading false information and deceiving the public.”

Government-controlled national newspapers also opined that had Beijing wanted the Dalai Lama dead, “it could have done so any time without waiting until he was 76 years old.”

The Dalai Lama and China have been at odds for decades, with the latter claiming the Dalai Lama is using his religious position to advocate the splitting of Chinese-territory Tibet from mainland China. Recently, the Dalai Lama stood down from his official position, but he remains a respected spiritual figure.

The Dalai Lama made international news late last year when the South African government refused him a visa to attend the a party hosted by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

[Source: Sowetan Live, Vagobond]