A senior official of Tibet had warned the Hong Kong celebrities Tony Leung and Faye Wong against fraternising with "splittist" Dalai Lama.
According to a report, the famous Hong Kong celebrities as well as the Chinese mainland actor Hu Jun were taken a photo attending a Buddhist assembly in India with some of the members of Tibetan government in exile a month ago.
The Karmapa's office said that the Hong Kong celebrities were attending an event on Feb 14 which commemorates the 92nd anniversary of the predecessor's birth of the 17th Gyalwang KArmapa, Tibetan Buddhism's third-highest spiritual leader.
The State-backed media in China then criticised the involved celebrities. However, the administration of the event during that time said that it was not political and that the Karmapa's office confirmed it was purely "coincidental."
Leung and Wong did not comment about the issue while Hu wrote a statement in his social media account saying he did not know there were any separatists present.
The deputy party secretary of Tibet, Wu Yingjie had compared the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader in exile as a "separatist, one who is jeopardising Tibet's stale development and defector" to reporters during the recently concluded annual parliamentary session.
It was remembered that the 14th Dalai Lama has fled from China to India when he was 23 years old after a failed attempt of uprising against Chinese rulers in year 1956. Since then, he has lived there. Dalai Lama's followers formed a Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala which has caused Beijing of trying to scatter Tiber from its mainland.
"We firmly oppose all celebrities, however influential they are, and whatever purpose they have, to make any contact with the 14th Dalai clique, or even help him spread his ideas," said Wu during the National People's Congress.
"As celebrities, especially superstars, they are public figures that bear certain social responsibilities. "We hope the celebrities to take the responsibility for their own deeds," Wu added.
