Gallery Bob and Tara Tulku in 1978 Bob and H.H. the Dalai Lama in ________. Lifetime friends and allies, Bob was twenty-three and the Dalai Lama was twenty-nine when they first met. Nena, Bob with Gelek Rimpoche during his teaching at the NY Open Center in 1979 His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Bob on a walk in Costa Rica in 1993 Speaking at the Pray For Tibet yearly march outside the United Nations in NYC in 1994