NEW DELHI: The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama apologised today after a video which showed him asking a boy to suck his tongue triggered a backlash on social media.
The video, which has gone viral, shows the Dalai Lama, 87, planting a kiss on the boy’s lips as he leaned in to pay his respects.The Buddhist monk is then seen sticking his tongue out as he asked the child to suck it. “Can you suck my tongue,” he is heard asking the young boy in the video. The video is from an event in McLeod Ganj, a suburb of Dharamshala city in northern India, on February 28.
But saying — now suck my tongue to a small boy is disgusting,” wrote user Sangita. Another poster, Rakhi Tripathi, said: “What did I just see? What that child must be feeling? Disgusting.” The Dalai Lama remains the universally recognised face of the movement for Tibetan autonomy.
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