Clean bill of health for Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama first complained of acute abdominal pain in December

MUMBAI, India -- Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama is said to be in an "absolutely normal" condition after being admitted to hospital for a bowel infection.

"We undertook further medical examinations this morning like blood tests on a fasting stomach. He's absolutely normal," Prakash Mhatre, operations director at the Leelavati Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai, told Reuters news agency.

Though a statement from the Dalai Lama's office in New Delhi said the infection was under control, there was no indication when the 66-year-old would be discharged from hospital.

"The panel of doctors who examined him have declared that the bowel infection is under control after he was being treated with antibiotics since yesterday [Sunday]," Mhatre said in the Reuters report.

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"He may be discharged soon, but we cannot tell the date. Tomorrow [Tuesday] the team of doctors will decide when to discharge him."

The Dalai Lama was flown to Mumbai from Patna in eastern India after complaining of stomach pains.

The spiritual leader was in a town near Patna to deliver a sermon to an estimated 200,000 people at a Buddhist festival.

The Kalchakra, or Wheel of Time, festival at the town of Bodh Gaya had to be canceled after the Dalai Lama fell ill.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after an failed uprising against Chinese rule.

Since then, he has spent most of his time in the Indian town of Dharmasala at the base of the Himalayas.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his non-violent campaign to free Tibet of Chinese rule.