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The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans’ 87-year-old religious chief, has apologized after footage confirmed him asking a younger boy to “suck my tongue” at a public occasion.
“A video clip has been circulating that exhibits a current assembly when a younger boy requested his Holiness the Dalai Lama if he may give him a hug,” stated a press release on the exiled chief’s Twitter account, which has 19 million followers.
“His Holiness needs to apologize to the boy and his household, in addition to his many associates the world over, for the damage his phrases could have brought on.”
The assertion on Monday stated the Dalai Lama chief “usually teases folks he meets in an harmless and playful approach, even in public and earlier than cameras. He regrets the incident.”
The video, which has a million views on Twitter, additionally exhibits the Nobel peace laureate apparently giving the boy a peck on the lips within the presence of an viewers who’re heard clapping and laughing, whereas a person captures the second on a cellphone. Reuters has not verified the clip.
The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed rebellion in opposition to Chinese language rule in Tibet, is regarded by Beijing as a harmful separatist.
He has labored for many years to attract international assist for linguistic and cultural autonomy in his distant, mountainous homeland.
He now lives in a compound subsequent to a temple ringed by inexperienced hills and snow-capped mountains within the northern Indian city of Dharamshala.
– Reuters
