Dalai Lama Hospitalized for Stomach Ailment

The Dalai Lama was admitted to a Bombay hospital for treatment of a lump in his stomach after illness forced him to miss several prayer sessions last week.

After conducting tests, Prakash Mhatre, operations director at Leelavati Hospital, said today that the 66-year-old spiritual leader was “absolutely normal” and may be released.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader had complained of abdominal pain and was examined by a team of doctors in a monastery in Bodhgaya, in India’s Bihar state. It then was decided he would fly to Bombay. A member of the medical team, A.M. Rai, said the Dalai Lama had a lump in his stomach, but gave no further details.