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Pop sensation Lady Gaga has reportedly been added to a list of hostile foreign forces banned by China's Communist party after she met with the Dalai Lama. (Getty Images)

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The 30-year-old singer, who has sold more than 27m albums, met the Tibetan spiritual leader before a conference in Indianapolis, reported Guardian online. (Getty Images)

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A video of the 19-minute encounter - in which the pair pondered issues such as meditation, mental health and how to detoxify humanity - was posted on the singer's Facebook account. (Getty Images)

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The meeting sparked an angry reaction from Beijing, which has attacked the spiritual leader as a 'wolf in monk's robes'. The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in March 1959, insists he is merely seeking greater autonomy from Chinese rule for Tibetans.

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But China's rulers consider him a separatist who they claim is conspiring to split the Himalayan region from China in order to establish theocratic rule there.

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Following Gaga's meeting, the Communist party's mysterious propaganda department issued 'an important instruction' banning her entire repertoire from mainland China, Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily reported. (Getty Images)

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