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Today, the Dalai Lama opened a Twitter account. The news spread like fire. Even AFP mentionned it.

By the time I write this, there are dozens of new people following him every time I reload His Holiness’ page (11 915 now).

It’s cool to have the Dalai Lama sending us thoughts via Twitter.

At first, he tried to answer back to every one sending him greetings. But apparently he can’t keep up..

Of course it’s not really him, it’s “His office”.

But just as the Dalai Lama himself, the office of His Holiness has a sense of humor : “HH will be just as inquisitive about technology as he has been over the past 14 reincarnations” (to that somebody on Twitter replied : ” I wonder if the 15th incarnation will inherit the twitter account”).

I saw the Dalai Lama twice in my life, once in Delhi at a conference at Habitat centre, the other time in Dharamsala, and it was incredible.

He really is holy.

Even if it was actually a fake.

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