India on 30 March 1959 and spent some days resting at Tawang Monastery before reaching Tezpur in Assam on 18 April. As recently as 2003, the Dalai Lama said that Tawang was "actually part of Tibet". He reversed his position in 2008, acknowledging the legitimacy of the McMahon Line and the Indian claim to the region. The Dalai Lama visited Tawang district on 8 November 2009. About 30,000 persons, including those from neighbouring Nepal and Bhutan, attended his religious discourse. References External links Tawang district marked on OpenStreetMap Tawang multilingual site Tawang District Government Website Tawang travel guide from Wikivoyage Districts of Arunachal Pradesh Minority Concentrated Districts in India 1989 establishments in Andhra Pradesh