Bombay, India ? The Dalai Lama was discharged from the hospital on Saturday after weeklong treatment for a stomach infection, a hospital official said.

The Tibetan spiritual leader walked out of Lilavati hospital on his own, though looking a bit pale and frail.

“He was treated for bowel infection of amoebic origin,” said Prakash Mhatre, director of operations at Lilavati Hospital in Bombay.

The Dalai Lama is expected to spend the next few days in Bombay, the capital of western Maharashtra state.

“I am fine and feeling much better,” Press Trust of India news agency quoted him as telling a large gathering of Tibetans outside the hospital.

The Tibetan spiritual leader was hospitalized last Sunday after doctors who examined him in the eastern state of Bihar suspected he had a lump in his stomach.

He was flown to Bombay after he complained of abdominal pains in Bodh Gaya, a Buddhist religious center in Bihar state. He missed the Kal Chakra, a 10-day Tibetan Buddhist religious service attended by thousands of his followers from various countries.

A medical checkup in early December at the same hospital had returned normal tests.

The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 with thousands of supporters after a failed uprising against China. Since then, he has headed a government-in-exile in Dharmsala.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his nonviolent struggle against Chinese rule.