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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7411769" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka stopped national cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara and another  player from calling on the Dalai Lama out of fear that a meeting would  anger China, an official said Tuesday.Sangakkara and former skipper Mahela Jayawardene were advised not to  join their Indian Premier League teammates who paid a courtesy call on  the Tibetan spiritual leader last month, the official said. "Kumar and Mahela were instructed not to visit the Tibetan leader. It  was a foreign ministry directive that was issued to us, via the sports  ministry," Sri Lanka cricket secretary Nishantha Ranatunga told AFP.   Sangakkara was the skipper of the Kings XI Punjab in the just concluded  IPL tournament. Local media reported that Jayawardene's wife Christina  had, however, joined the team to visit the Tibetan spiritual leader   "We were made to understand that we should not upset relations with  China," Ranatunga said.   Sri Lanka, a key Buddhist nation, supports a "one-China" policy and  regards Beijing as a key political and military ally.   China regularly protests to countries which allow visits by the Dalai  Lama. Beijing sees him as a supporter of independence for Tibet, which  it regards as Chinese territory. The Dalai Lama fled into exile in India  in 1959. Beijing has also helped block a resolution censuring Sri Lanka for its  handling of the final stages of its war against the Tamil Tiger rebels  last year and is a main supplier of small arms to the South Asian  nation.                                [ AFP ]<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44693000/jpg/_44693902_dalai_lama512.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />nidahasa thiyen na ona thaman ta kamathi aya hamba wen nasanga, mahela podi lamai newei ne Hela Urumaya mokada kiyan ne ? <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/rolleyes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Rolleyes    :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />Dalai lama is a international iconWe all must respect his holiness Therawada newei kiyala samahara aya Dalai Lama respect eka den ne naha <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/eek.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":eek:" title="eek    :eek:" data-shortname=":eek:" />Respect everybody <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /></blockquote>

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