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Are You as Hip as the Dalai Lama?

The Hippest Lama There Is

The Dalai Lama. Source of inspiration, font of patience, and according to tradition a manifestation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion and patron saint of Tibet.

"Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have postponed their own nirvana and chosen to take rebirth in order to serve humanity." - http://www.dalailama.com

A maven, certainly, but a social media maven? Apparently so. His holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, or more accurately, his office and representatives are now on Twitter.

Yep, that's right check out - http://twitter.com/OHHDL. According to a tweet from earlier today:

"His Holiness thought it was prudent to make his office open and assessable to a more youth and technologically advancing audience."

Presuming it's not a fake account, I say well done. Forward thinking attempt to engage with a wider audience. I'm interested to see how it pans out. Just starting following @OHHDL, I wonder if they will actually engage their followers or just firehose tweets.