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Dalai Lama apologises for asking boy to suck his tongue

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama speaks at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) during a panel discussion on "Happiness, Free Enterprise, and Human Flourishing" in Washington, DC, February 20, 2014. 

Photo credit: Jim Watson | AFP

What you need to know:

  • Twitter users slammed the video, calling it "disgusting" and "absolutely sick" after it started trending on Sunday.
  • In 2019, the Dalai Lama apologised for saying that if his successor were to be a woman, she would have to be "attractive".

New Delhi,

The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama apologised on Monday after a video which showed him asking a boy to suck his tongue triggered a backlash on social media.