Pico Iyer: On ‘The Open Road’ and 30 years With the Dalai Lama

From World Hum:

World Hum: So it began with this first meeting that you had with your father and the Dalai Lama?

Pico Iyer: That’s right. That’s when I was 17, in 1974, and although, as you read, I wasn’t that excited about meeting [chuckles] a colleague of my father’s, I think that some seed was sown in that initial meeting, which meant that the very first time the Dalai Lama came to the U.S., which was five years later, in 1979, I made sure to go and see him.

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