The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader revered by all Tibetans, in turmoil. After the publication of a video in which we see him asking a boy about him “ tongue sucking “, during a hearing, he is pointed at for” sexual abuse “. From New Delhi, the head of government in exile defends the gesture of the Dalai Lama and accuses Beijing of having orchestrated this controversy.
The video is dated February 28. For more than a month, she had gone completely unnoticed, before creating an almost planetary controversy on social networks.
For the head of the Tibetan government Penpa Tsering, there is little doubt: pro-Chinese sources circulated these images with the aim of harming the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, hated by Beijing.
According to him, the Dalai Lama’s request was ” innocent ” And ” misinterpreted “. Indeed, in Tibetan culture, kissing on the mouth and showing one’s tongue are marks of respect and affection for the other and do not have the same meaning as in the West.
Tibetan experts also regret that this controversy makes us forget the essential, namely that Tibetans have been subjected to Chinese colonization and repression for 70 years.
Their language and their culture are gradually disappearing. The UN estimates that one million Tibetan children now live separated from their parents, forced to learn Chinese in boarding schools.
Many Buddhist monks and nuns are imprisoned, and since 2009 nearly 160 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest the persecution of this minority.
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