Dalai Lama sorry for asking boy to ‘suck my tongue’

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans’ 87-year-old religious chief, has apologised 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 apologise to the boy and his household, in addition to his many pals internationally, for the damage his phrases could have precipitated.”

The assertion on Monday stated the Dalai Lama chief “usually teases individuals he meets in an harmless and playful means, 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 in presence of an viewers who’re heard clapping and laughing, whereas a person captures the second on a telephone. Reuters has not verified the clip.

The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed rebellion towards Chinese language rule in Tibet, is regarded by Beijing as a harmful separatist.

He has labored for many years to attract world 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.

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