


“And suck my tongue,” the Dalai Lama tells the boy, sticking out his tongue.

The spiritual leader then grabs the boy’s chin and kisses him on the mouth as the audience laughs. He holds the boy’s arm and turns to him, saying “then I think fine here also” as he points to his lips. The Dalai Lama motions to his cheek and says “first here” and the boy gives him a hug and kiss. The 87-year-old says “OK, come” and invites him on stage. In the video, the boy approaches the microphone and asks, “Can I hug you?” The leader of Tibetan Buddhism, Tenzin Gyatso, was hosting students and members of the foundation at his temple in Dharamshala, India, where he lives in exile. The Dalai Lama has raised eyebrows after kissing a young Indian boy on the lips and asking him to “suck” his tongue at a recent event.įootage of the bizarre interaction, which occurred last month during an event for India’s M3M Foundation, has gone viral on social media. For those who understandably do not wish to see such a thing but are comfortable with a text description, here’s a new write-up from : Here is a hyperlink to a video of the interaction. A tweet from last month shows a video clip of the Tibetan spiritual leader with the child and says the encounter took place during his “meeting with students and members of M3M Foundation,” though ’s clip cuts out the sexually inappropriate part of the encounter. There’s a really gross video going around of the Dalai Lama kissing a young boy on the lips and telling him to suck his tongue while an adult audience looks on approvingly. ( Readers sensitive to discussion of inappropriate adult behavior toward children may want to skip this one.)
