The Dalai Lama’s seventy-fourth birthday is tomorrow, the 5th of July.

In Australia, the local Tibetan community will gather to celebrate the birth date of their spiritual leader.

Meanwhile, in the Indian town of Dharamsala, the heart of the exiled Tibetan community and home of the Dalai Lama, an Australian delegation of MPs are spending their second last day of a six-day-visit participating in a public celebration of His Holiness’ birthday.

The delegation consists of Labor MPs Michael Danby and Melissa Parke, Liberal MP Peter Slipper, Australian Greens Senators Scott Ludlam and Sarah Hanson-Young and Independent Senator Nick Xenophon.

It is the first time an Australian parliamentary delegation has been sent over to visit the spiritual leader.
2ser’s Biwa Kwan spoke with Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young.