Dalai Lama's Video Asking Minor Boy To "Suck His Tongue" Triggers Row

A video displaying the Dalai Lama kissing a infant on his lips after which asking him to “suck his tongue” has brought on a row. The video, which has long gone viral on social media, indicates the Dalai Lama planting a kiss at the boy`s lips while he leaned in to pay his respects. The Buddhist monk is visible sticking his tongue out as he requested the kid to suck it. “Can you suck my tongue,” he’s heard asking the minor boy withinside the video.

The venue and date of the occasion had been now no longer right away clear. The video evoked irritated reactions from Twitter users, terming the act as “disgusting”, “outrageous” and “condemnable”.

Sharing the video, Twitter consumer Joost Broekers wrote, “So the Dalai Lama is kissing an Indian boy at a Buddhist occasion or even attempts to the touch his tongue. He clearly says “suck my tongue”. Now why might he do that?” “This is unbecoming and no person must justify this ill-behavior of @DalaiLama,” wrote any other Twitter consumer Deepika Pushkar Nath.

“What am I seeing? Is this Dalai Lama? Needs to be arrested for pedophilia. Disgusting,” tweeted Jas Oberoi. In 2019, the Dalai Lama had sparked a big controversy for announcing that if his successor had been to be a woman, she must should be “attractive”. “If a woman Dalai Lama comes, she must be greater attractive,” he said.

The comments, which attracted complaint across the world, had been made in an interview with the BBC in 2019 from the Nobel peace prize winner’s exile in Dharamsala. He had later apologised for his debatable comments.

Last month, the Dalai Lama had named a US-born Mongolian boy because the tenth Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoche, the 1/3 maximum rank in Tibetan Buddhism.

The circulate to anoint the eight-year-vintage because the 1/3-maximum lama in Tibetan Buddhism is probable to irk China, which has been adamant that it’ll most effective comprehend Buddhist leaders selected via way of means of its very own government.

Beijing has accused the Dalai Lama of fomenting separatism in Tibet and it does now no longer comprehend the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), which represents approximately 100,000 exiled Tibetans dwelling in round 30 international locations inclusive of India, Nepal, Canada and the US.