By Mure Dickie

BEIJING, Sept 2 (Reuter) - Nine Tibetan women exiles clashed at a grassroots workshop with Chinese-sponsored Tibetan delegates, who shouted over the discussion and brought it to a hasty end on Saturday.

"It was very upsetting," said Tenki Tendus Davis, one of only nine exiled Tibetans who succeeded in obtaining visas from China to attend the Non-Governmental Organisations Forum on Women in the Huairou suburb of Beijing.

The Tibetan exiles showed a video in which two Tibetan women who had left their Chinese-ruled Himalayan homeland described their lives under Beijing administration.

After the video, a Tibetan from a Chinese-sponsored group got up and began to make a speech and a shouting match erupted when the Tibetan exiles told her she was permitted to ask questions but not to orate.

Other members of the Chinese-sanctioned group began to heckle and shout, drowning out a Western women who tried to ask a question.

"How can women in Huairou support exiled Tibetan women?" the Western woman said.

"It got totally out of hand," Tendus Davis said later.

The Tibetan exiles, who have been followed and filmed by Chinese security officials since they arrived in China this week, began to chant a Buddhist sutra and when the women from their homeland continued to shout and heckle, they walked out of the room in tears.

"All hell broke loose," said delegation member Reed Brody later. "For a long time there was pandemonium."

The nine women exiles, their mouths gagged with colourful scarves to represent repression in their homeland, staged a daring silent protest at the forum on Friday.

The incident further underlined the tension surrounding participation by exiled followers of the Dalai Lama at the U.N.-sponsored meeting.

The official Chinese hosts have organised a separate group of Tibetans, most of them members of government-sanctioned bodies who live in the Chinese-ruled Himalayan region.

China celebrated on Friday its 30 years of formal rule over rebellious Tibet as creating a miracle on the roof of the world and issued a blistering attack on the exiled Dalai Lama, accusing him of trying to split China.

Beijing regularly lashes out at the Dalai Lama, accusing him of fomenting Tibetan independence and stirring up anti-Chinese sentiment to try to split China since he fled to India in 1959 after an abortive anti-Chinese uprising.

People's Liberation Army troops entered Tibet in 1950 and Beijing solidified its rule over Tibet in 1965 by setting up the ostensibly autonomous government.

Since the late 1980s, Chinese troops and police have suppressed many anti-Chinese uprisings, usually led by lamas loyal to the Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.