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'The next Dalai Lama could be a woman, an Australian, a Nepali...you can’t predict that’
Ian Green (C) with the Dalai Lama (R) in the late 2000s. Credit: Rusty Stewart / Supplied / Ian Green
Ian Green first met the Dalai Lama in the late 1970s, when he shared with the Tibetan spiritual leader an idea to build a Buddhist monastery in Australia. Now, the Chairman of The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, located in the outskirts of the regional town of Bendigo, Green recalls his first encounter with the Lama vividly. SBS Nepali spoke to Green about his decades-long connection with the Dalai Lama and his thoughts on the ongoing question of who the Dalai Lama’s successor might be on the occasion of the Lama’s 90th birthday on Sunday, July 6.
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