Dalai Lama brings message to Hobart

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

ABC News
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His Holiness advocates personal and universal responsibility for the planet. (ABC News)

The Dalai Lama has arrived in Hobart as part of his Australian tour.

The 14th Dalai Lama has visited the University of Tasmania to deliver a talk advocating individual and universal responsibility in caring for the planet.

His Holiness also helped celebrate an academic exchange program between the School of Philosophy and the Central University of Tibetan Studies.

Professor Jeff Malpas from UTAS says the Buddhist Studies Program has been offering student exchanges for years.

"It's really the culmination of over a decade of work that we've been involved in northern India and with the Tibetans so for us it's a really important celebration," he said.

This afternoon the Dalai Lama delivers a public talk titled " Our Earth, Who is Responsible?".