PARIS, Oct 30 (AFP) - Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prepared to climax a three-day visit to France Wednesday with meetings with the mayor of Paris and French deputies, after a trip roundly condemned by Beijing.

The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner was also to appear on a prime-time TV show Wednesday evening, after meeting Paris mayor Jean Tiberi and MPs and senators at the National Assembly hours before the end of his trip.

On Tuesday night the 61-year-old held a public conference for 4,000 people at a sports stadium to the west of the French capital, on the subject of the link between spirituality and everyday life.

His visit has already sparked the anger of Chinese authorities, who warned Paris that diplomatic relations could be affected if France gives any official recognition to the trip.

The foreign ministry has been at pains to stress the trip is purely pastoral the Dalai Lama has not been invited to see either President Jacques Chirac or premier Alain Juppe.

On Tuesday however he was paid a "strictly private" visit by Justice Minister Jacques Toubon, second in the French government hierarchy, in a meeting seen as intended to limit the impression France is kow-towing to China.

Neither was the meeting Wednesday with the mayor of Paris officially included in the Buddhist leader's schedule for the trip, which comes after he spent three days in Strasbourg last week.

During the day Wednesday he was also to meet Socialist Party head Lionel Jospin, before appearing on the talk show "La Marche du Siecle" on state-run France 3 television.

Paris is at pains not to anger Beijing ahead of a visit by President Chirac there next May. Beijing has warned France against any official contact with the Dalai Lama while the Tibetan spiritual leader is in France.

"We hope that the French authorities will respect the agreement between us," said the Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday. "Otherwise, our relations will be affected."

The Dalai Lama has repeatedly attacked China during the visit. In a newspaper interview he condemned China's "cultural genocide" in his homeland, while he also alleged that Beijing was distorting his views.

Beijing, which has ruled Tibet since 1950, has already condemned a visit by the Dalai Lama to the European parliament in Strasbourg last week as "gross interference" in its internal affairs.