epa04092382 (FILE) The Tibetan spiritual leader, his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, gives a talk about 'Ethics in Our Shared World' at the Diet Members Building in downtown Tokyo, Japan, 20 November 2013. China urged the US to cancel a planned meeting on 21 February 2014 between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama at the White House. The meeting would cause 'serious damage' to ties between the two countries and amount to interference in China's domestic affairs, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. EPA/CHRISTOPHER JUE
28 February 2014
First the Dalai Lama joined Twitter. Then Pope Benedict followed suit with @pontifex, and his successor Pope Francis has carried on.
Now the social media stakes have been raised again. The Pope joined Instagram late last year, and yesterday the Dalai Lama followed suit. There are only 16 photographs on the Dalai Lama’s account so far but the celeb count is already higher than the Pope’s, who prefers pictures of himself among crowds.
In one picture of the Dalai Lama he’s chewing the cud with President Obama. In another he’s got his arm around Larry King, maybe comforting the TV presenter who had to give up his CNN talk show three years ago to the recently sacked Piers Morgan.
