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Dalai Lama Apologizes After Video Shows Him Kissing Young Boy On Mouth, Asking Him To Suck His Tongue

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Dalai Lama Apologizes After Video Shows Him Kissing Young Boy On Mouth, Asking Him To Suck His Tongue
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The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans’ 87-year-old spiritual leader, issued an apology Monday morning after video surfaced of him kissing a young boy on the mouth earlier this year in northern India.

The incident happened in February in the hillside city of Dharamshala during an event for the M3M Foundation, a philanthropy group started by an Indian real estate company.

After the Dalai Lama kissed the boy, he stuck out his tongue and told the boy to ā€œsuck my tongue.ā€

ā€œA video clip has been circulating that shows a recent meeting when a young boy asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama if he could give him a hug,ā€ said a statement on the exiled leader’s Twitter account, which has 19 million followers. ā€œHis Holiness wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused.ā€

ā€œHis Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras,ā€ the statement continued. ā€œHe regrets the incident.ā€

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Haq: Center for Child Rights, a prominent child rights group in the area, told CNN that it condemned ā€œall form of child abuse.ā€

ā€œSome news refers to Tibetan culture about showing tongue, but this video is certainly not about any cultural expression and even if it is, such cultural expressions are not acceptable,ā€ the organization said.

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The Dalai Lama faced intense backlash online over the incident and the apology.

ā€œMissing some context here @DalaiLama,ā€ journalist Yashar Ali tweeted alongside a screenshot of a New York Times tweet that stated in part: ā€œThe Dalai Lama has apologized after a video surfaced showing him kissing a boy on the lips at a public event this year and then saying to the child, ā€˜Suck my tongue.'ā€

ā€œThis sick, disturbing video of the Dalai Lama making a child suck his tongue emerged months ago, but it has only just now made waves on social media—prompting the ā€˜holy’ man to issue an apology,ā€ writer Ian Miles Cheong wrote on Twitter. ā€œWhy wasn’t it a problem for him before it went viral?ā€

ā€œThat’s not very holy!ā€ declared Professor Gad Saad.

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