The Dalai Lama Kiss Controversy: Understanding the Context and Cultural Significance

2023-11-03 16:16:00

“TVs have done everything to create a buzz,” laments Véronique Jannot, who has just published “The Present Is My Refuge” published by XO. This hurt me a lot for the Tibetans… That we were attacking one of the rare people who has such concern for the youth, for his people. A man who is obviously a monk and spiritual master who has had so many health problems. We suddenly forget a little regarding these Tibetan people in exile… Young people need to immolate themselves for us to realize this a little. But people don’t care. It’s swept away by Ukraine, etc.”

A video of the Dalai Lama trying to kiss a little boy sparks controversy

“When we drag a being as magnificent as the Dalai Lama through the mud, calling him a pedophile, then we insult and hurt an entire people.”

Such a controversy that the Tibetan spiritual leader had to apologize publicly. “That major media like television have seized on very filthy things to create buzz and smear a man of the Dalai Lama’s stature… denounces the 66-year-old actress who still can’t believe it. When we say something regarding Macron, it doesn’t make us happy but there will be no demonstrations in the streets with people waving republican flags. On the other hand, when we drag through the mud, calling him a pedophile etc., a being as magnificent as the Dalai Lama then we insult and hurt an entire people. Because he is their hope.”

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And the singer came out of her hinges. “We must therefore stop creating a buzz at all costs without finding out where this tape came from, where it was taken and in what context! He didn’t do this on the sly, ‘come kid suck my tongue!’ It was in a teaching with thousands of people, with the grandfather in the front row, the mother just behind. It was a blessing for them that the Dalai Lama took this little boy in his arms. In their culture, people stick out their tongues to say hello, to show that there is no blue poison. And like grandparents give candy to their grandchildren: ‘well I have more, there’s only my tongue left to suck’. It’s cultural!” And to conclude, with rage in his stomach: “That we take this to make something very trashy and very disgusting, I find it shameful! And no one reported him. No denial. The damage has been done. It’s dishonest, it’s a real lack of integrity. And this, this manipulation, makes me vomit.”

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