NEW DELHI, Nov 28 (Reuter) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader based in India, urged visiting Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Thursday to stop what he called Chinese repression in Tibet.

"The present Chinese policy is resulting in a kind of cultural genocide in Tibet," the Dalai Lama said in a statement.

He asked Jiang to resolve the problem peacefully through dialogue, even as Tibetan exiles in New Delhi held noisy anti-Chinese demonstrations, braving police barricades to burn a Chinese flag and an effigy of Jiang.

The Buddhist spiritual leader has lived in exile in the north Indian Himalayan town of Dharamshala since 1959, when he fled his homeland along with some followers after an abortive uprising against China's 1950 annexation of Tibet.

About 130,000 Tibetans live in India, 4,000 of them in the capital, New Delhi.

Buddhist monks and nuns participated in a demonstration in Dharamshala, the United News of India agency reported.

Most offices of the Tibetan government-in-exile were shut as a mark of protest, UNI said.

India supports China's jurisdiction over Tibet.

"In view of a new wave of repression in Tibet and a campaign to denounce me inside Tibet," the Dalai Lama said, the prospects of a meeting between President Jiang and himself appeared unrealistic, even though he wanted to meet the Chinese leader.

"I therefore take this opportunity to urge President Jiang Zemin to reverse China's repressive policy in Tibet," he said. "Today, the Tibetan people with their unique cultural heritage are facing the threat of extinction," he said.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner said dialogue was the only appropriate and human way to resolve problems and overcome differences.

"With this conviction I remain willing to negotiate for genuine self-rule in Tibet on terms which are acceptable to China as well as to us Tibetans," he said.

"I believe that it is more important to look forward to the future than to dwell in the past."

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, welcomed Jiang's visit, but condemned the inclusion of Gyaltsen Norbu, chairman of the Tibet Autonomus Region, and Dorje Tsering, Minister of Civil Administration, in the Chinese delegation.

CTA Secretary Tempa Tsering said in a statement that their inclusion was a Chinese attempt to impress the world that Tibetans support any agreement that might be signed on Tibet between India and China and that the situation in Tibet was improving.

"On both accounts, the impression is patently false," the statement added.