The Dalai Lama arrives in Bomdila to a traditional welcome.

The Tibetan spiritual leader rescheduled his visit to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh as his chopper could not take off due to inclement weather in the region and instead reached Bomdila in the state by road from Guwahati today.

Tomorrow, the spiritual leader is scheduled to visit Dirang, 14 kilometers from Bomdila and on Thursday he will go to Tawang before visiting Itanagar on April 12.

The Dalai Lama will deliver a discourse at the Buddha Park in Bomdila tomorrow.

On April 6, he will give teachings at Dirang and confer the Avalokiteshvara Permission at Thupsung Dhargyeling Monastery in the morning.

From April 8 to 10, the Dalai Lama will deliver discourses in Tawang.

The Dalai Lamas visit to Arunachal Pradesh comes eight years after his previous visit in 2009.

The previous visit came exactly 50 years after he had passed through the town on his way from Lhasa in Tibet to India.

Amid persistent Chinese objections to the Dalai Lamas trip to Arunachal Pradesh, India said today that no "artificial controversy" should be created around the Tibetan spiritual leaders visit.