(1 Sep 2009)
1. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, arriving at prayer and greeting attendees
2. Wide of the Dalai Lama on stage, greeting assembled people
3. The Dalai Lama bowing and kneeling down on floor
4. A lama blowing horn
5. Various of monks bowing in prayer
6. The Dalai Lama making a blessing
7. Wide of audience
8. Wide the Dalai Lama putting his hands together and greeting people in the arena
9. Wide the Dalai Lama leaving the stage
10. Dalai Lama waving at people as he leaves
11. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Lai Shen-yang, audience member:
"This is my first time to see the Dalai Lama in person, so I am very excited."
12. Woman spinning a Tibetan prayer wheel
13. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Kao Zhong-Hsien, audience member:
"I don't see this politically. He prays for the victims, it is a very good thing."
14. The Dalai Lama walking out of Kaohsiung Arena
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader:
"I meet her as a human being, actually wherever I go, whoever I meet, I always consider them as another human brother and sisters. I don't care what is their social background, or religious belief or their colour, I don't care, that's not important."
16. Wide the Dalai Lama walking to a woman in a wheelchair and hugging the woman
17. Close back shot of the Dalai Lama talking to woman who is weeping
18. Mid top shot of the Dalai Lama giving medicine to the woman, explaining to woman how to use it
19. Wide Taiwanese opposition party chairman Tsai Ing-wen speaking to media
20. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Tsai Ing-wen, Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party:
"China should face this issue rationally, they should consider that the Dalai Lama came to Taiwan this time to comfort the soul of Taiwanese people. If China can face this issue positively. We believe that the relationship of Taiwan and China will improve."
21. Wide of banner reads: (Chinese) "Against traitors who jeopardise the unification and separatism"
22. Tilt up from sign reads: (English) "Dalai Lama, the instrument of US Imperialism" to protesters gathering
23. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Mr Pei, protester:
"He is a fake mercy. He provoked the Tibetans to hurt the Chinese people."
24. Pan of protesters gathering outside hotel where the Dalai Lama is staying
25. Tilt up from police car to exterior of the hotel
STORYLINE:
The Dalai Lama on Tuesday led a mass prayer for the victims of Typhoon Morakot in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, as the controversy over his trip intensified.
The visit of the Tibetan spiritual leader, aimed at offering comfort to the victims of the Typhoon, has created the most serious challenge for relations between the democratic island and the communist mainland since Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou took office 15 months ago on a platform of ending 60 years of hostility.
China has cancelled or postponed several events meant to underscore improving relations with Taiwan, apparently to show anger over the Dalai Lama's visit to the island, Taiwan's governing party said on Tuesday.
The trip has infuriated Beijing, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory and resents any outside effort to influence its future.
China has cancelled or postponed the planned Taiwan visits of at least two important delegations, and ceremonies meant to mark the expansion of direct air service between the sides, said Nationalist Party spokeswoman Chen Shu-rong on Tuesday.
An official said on Tuesday the Taiwanese ruling party has sent an emissary to China to seek its understanding on the Dalai Lama's visit.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949.
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