The Dalai Lama issued a public apology Monday after video of him kissing a young boy on the lips and asking the child to “suck my tongue” prompted outrage online.
video footage of the Dalai Lama’s incident with the child appears to show the boy not actually going through with the spiritual leader’s tongue-sucking request with the pair hugging afterward.
This isn’t the first time the Dalai Lama has apologized for sparking uproar. In 2019, his office put out a statement saying he was “deeply sorry” after saying in anThe apology explained the Dalai Lama “has a keen sense of the contradictions between the materialistic, globalized world he encounters on his travels and the complex, more esoteric ideas about reincarnation that are at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
The 87-year-old was enthroned as the 14th Dalai Llama in 1940 and assumed his full political duties in 1950 at the age of 15. Following the failed uprising in Tibet against Chinese occupation in 1959, he has lived in exile in India.
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