New Delhi, May 2 (PTI) Karmapa Ugyen Thinley Dorje, head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, today rubbished allegations that he was a Chinese spy and expressed readiness to make clarification to any government official in this regard.
"I am not a Chinese spy, agent or a plant in India," he said, adding he was deeply hurt by such insinuations in his "second home" which would be "difficult to forget in this lifetime".
Describing China as a "totalitarian regime", he said, "Unlike democratic India, there is no religious freedom there."
The Karmapa Lama is the spiritual leader of one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, ranking only behind the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama in the Tibetan spiritual hierarchy.