NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Tibet's government-in-exile led by the Dalai Lama on Tuesday criticised Beijing for calling the Himalayan region an inalienable part of China and accused it of distorting history.

Tempa Tsering, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama, said the Nobel prize-winning spiritual leader would be telling an ``enormous historical lie'' if he were to acknowledge, as Chinese President Jiang Zemin urged recently, that Tibet is inseparable from China.

``By demanding that His Holiness accept that Tibet has been an inalienable part of China, President Jiang Zemin is in effect demanding that His Holiness re-write history of Tibet...'' Tsering said in a statement released in the Indian capital.

``His Holiness can never do this. His Holiness is on record saying that stating this would constitute an enormous historical lie and he as a Buddhist monk would have no part in it.''

The Tibetan statement added that the Dalai Lama has said in the past that he is willing to negotiate the future status of Tibet with China anywhere, but without any preconditions.

During a visit to the United States last week Jiang said the Dalai Lama must recognize publicly that Tibet is an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China, publicly renounce Tibetan independence and stop all activities aimed at``splitting the motherland.''

The Dalai Lama fled into exile in India in 1959 after an abortive uprising against communist rule.