He Dalai Lama apologized this Monday after the circulation of a video in the social networks in which he asks a child to “suck your tongue” during an event, unleashing a strong controversy and numerous critics.
“A video has circulated showing a recent encounter, in which a young boy asks His Holiness the Dalai Lama if he can give him a hug. His Holiness wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as to his many friends around the world. the world, for the damage his words have caused,” the Buddhist leader said in a statement.
The images show the Dalai Lama, 87, kissing the young person on the lips during an act and in the presence of other adults, to immediately ask if he can “suck” his tongue. Seconds later, the Tibetan spiritual leader points to his mouth and sticks out his tongue.
🇮🇳 | THE LATEST: The Dalai Lama kisses an Indian boy on the mouth at a Buddhist event in India and even tries to touch his tongue. After the kiss, he sticks his tongue out of him and tells the boy to “suck my tongue”. pic.twitter.com/zku70ZvOxQ
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“His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and mischievous way, even in public and on camera. He regrets the incident,” the ministry’s office insisted. spiritual leader of the Tibet.
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The Dalai Lama has already caused controversy after joking that he could surely be succeeded by a womenbut this one should be “very attractive”.
Tenzin Gyatsothe original name of the 14th Dalai Lama, fled with thousands of his compatriots to the India in early 1959 after the harsh Chinese repression against the failed popular uprising in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
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Since then, he has continued the fight for the freedom of his people, although always “systematically opposing the violence“, reason for which he was granted the Peace Nobel in 1989.
The Tibetan religious leader was born on July 6, 1935 in Taktser, in eastern Tibet, where at the age of two he became the spiritual head of his people upon being recognized as the reincarnation of his predecessor.