Dalai Lama’s Controversial Video Triggers Row

New Delhi: A video showing the Dalai Lama kissing a child on his lips and then asking him to “suck his tongue” has triggered a row. The video, which has gone viral on social media, shows the Dalai Lama planting a kiss on the boy’s lips when he leaned in to pay respect to the spiritual leader, according to an NDTV report.

The Buddhist monk is seen sticking his tongue out as he asked the child to suck it. “Can you suck my tongue,” he is heard asking the minor boy in the video. The video evoked angry reactions from Twitter users.

Sharing the video, Twitter user Joost Broekers wrote, “So the Dalai Lama is kissing an Indian boy at a Buddhist event and even tries to touch his tongue. He actually says “suck my tongue”. Now why would he do that?”

“This is unbecoming and no one should justify this ill-conduct of

@DalaiLama,” wrote another Twitter user 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 huge controversy for saying that if his successor were to be a woman, she should have to be “attractive”.

“If a female Dalai Lama comes, she should be more attractive,” he said.

The comments, which attracted criticism around the world, were made in an interview with the British broadcaster aired in 2019 from the Nobel peace prize winner’s exile in Dharamsala.

He had later apologised for his controversial comments.