{"id":54211,"date":"2023-04-10T17:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T08:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/10\/dalai-lama-apologises-kissing-boy-suck-his-tongue-video"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T08:41:35","slug":"dalai-lama-apologises-after-kissing-boy-and-asking-him-to-suck-his-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54211","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama apologises after kissing boy and asking him to \u2018suck his tongue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interaction at temple in India seen in video that has gone viral condemned as \u2018inappropriate\u2019 and \u2018scandalous\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama has apologised after he faced allegations of inappropriate behaviour after kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to \u201csuck his tongue\u201d at a public event in India.<\/p>\n<p>The interaction, which took place in late February at the Dalai Lama\u2019s temple in Dharamshala, was attended by about 100 young students who had just graduated from the Indian M3M Foundation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/10\/dalai-lama-apologises-kissing-boy-suck-his-tongue-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interaction at temple in India seen in video that has gone viral condemned as \u2018inappropriate\u2019 and \u2018scandalous\u2019The Dalai Lama has apologised after he faced allegations of inappropriate behaviour after kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to \u201cs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[211,1447,62,371,61,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-dalai-lama","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tibet","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54227,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54211\/revisions\/54227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}