PARIS, Oct 29 (Reuter) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on a two-day visit to France, accused China on Tuesday of committing "cultural genocide" in Tibet.

The 1989 Nobel Peace laureate is on a European tour that last week brought a Chinese protest to the European Union over a meeting he had with officials of the European Parliament.

"A kind of cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet" the Dalai Lama told French daily Le Monde in an interview.

"Losing one's independence is acceptable, but losing one's culture, accepting the destruction of our spiritualism, of Tibetan Buddhism, is unthinkable," he said.

Le Monde said that China warned French authorities earlier on Tuesday against meeting the Dalai Lama, saying such meetings would have an impact on relations between the two countries.

The Dalai Lama is scheduled to meet French parliamentarians, Socialist opposition leader Lionel Jospin and Paris mayor Jean Tiberi during his stay in the French capital, but no official meeting is planned with government representatives.