DALAI LAMA APOLOGIZES AFTER ASKING BOY TO SUCK HIS TONGUE

The Dalai Lama has apologized for inappropriate behavior after kissing a young boy on the lips and then asking him to “suck his tongue” at a public event in India. The interaction, which took place in late February at the Dalai Lama’s temple in Dharamshala, was attended by about 100 young students who had just graduated from a prestigious school. In a video that has gone viral, one of the young male students approached a microphone at the event and asked the Dalai Lama: “Can I hug you?” Mr. Lama, 87, told the boy to come up to the platform. He pointed to his cheek and said, “First here,” after which the child kissed him and gave him a hug. Then he said, “I think here also” and planted a kiss on the boy’s lips. “And suck my tongue,” the Dalai Lama then said, sticking out his tongue. The boy quickly stuck out his own tongue and went to move away while the Dalai Lama laughed and pulled the boy in for another hug, as the audience laughed. After taking some heat for his actions, the office of the Dalai Lama issued an apology, saying, “His holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras. He regrets the incident.”
* Maybe it’s just me, but I’ll guess I’ll never understand the humor of the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. But it’s probably just me.
* I don’t think Buddhists believe in this phrase, but… What the hell?
* I have a funny feeling if this had been the Pope, there’d be a stronger reaction.
* As long as he doesn’t try to ram-a the Lama ding-dong.
* This is like the time Ghandi gave a kid a purple nurple.