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The spiritual leaders at an earlier – offline – meeting

One of the more unlikely bits of social media ephemera to pass my way this week concerned an online meeting of two of the world’s most recognisable religious leaders.

Or, as the Dalai Lama announced it on his Google+ page, “His Holiness the Dalai Lama will have a conversation with Archbishop Desmond Tutu by live video over a Hangout”, thus ensuring both his message and Google’s would be widely shared.