KATHMANDU, Nov 17 (AFP) - At least 105 Tibetans were arrested in Manang district, 235 kilometres (146 miles) northwest of here for allegedly entering neighbouring Nepal without permission, a police source said Sunday.

"The Tibetans entered Nepal from a place called Ghyulekha in Tibet," the police source said.

The Tibetans enter Nepal to go to Dharamsala in northern India to meet their revered spiritual leader and Nobel Peace prize winner the Dalai Lama.

"This is the largest group of Tibetans arrested this year," the source said.

Ten of those arrested were on horseback while 95 entered Nepal on foot on Saturday.

The Dalai Lama and his followers have been living in self-exile in India since a failed uprising against China in Tibet in the late 1950s.

Tibet, in China's southwest, is officially konwn as an autonomous region of China.