The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans\u2019 87-year-old spiritual leader, issued an apology Monday morning after video surfaced of him kissing a young boy on the mouth earlier this year in northern India.<\/p>\n
The incident happened in February in the hillside city of Dharamshala during an event for the M3M Foundation, a philanthropy group started by an Indian real estate company.<\/p>\n
After the Dalai Lama kissed the boy, he stuck out his tongue and told the boy to \u201csuck my tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA video clip has been circulating that shows a recent meeting when a young boy asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama if he could give him a hug,\u201d said a statement on the exiled leader\u2019s Twitter account, which has 19 million followers. \u201cHis Holiness wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cHe regrets the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
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