After A photo of Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso kissing a baby on the mouth during a religious service went viral around the world. and many citizens were appalled and had to go out to apologize for what he had done.
“If his words have caused any pain, he wishes to apologize to the boy and his family and to his many friends around the world,” according to a statement posted on his official Twitter account.
However, a few hours ago a YouTube video was released on the website Voice of Tibet www.vot.org, where the boy can be seen talking about his experience with the spiritual leader.
“It was a wonderful experience to meet His Holiness, a person of great energy, you feel happy when you receive that great energy”, Minor is heard saying.
In the same video, Dr. Payal Kanodia, a senior official at M3M Foundation, also appears and only mentions the experience “His Holiness” had so closely and the blessings it brings.
“We had this opportunity to be with His Holiness and also my family and the students present. […]I am absolutely grateful for the teachings he left us on peace and how blessed I feel by his words,” Kanodia told the same web portal.
However, despite their great lived experiences, the world condemned the Dalai Lama’s actions. In Colombia, for example, Cristina Plazas, former director of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF), spoke. During the week Vicky and He asked us not to normalize this situation.
“Culture cannot be an excuse for violating children’s rights.” Similarly, he found the leader’s statement unusual and assured that it was a joke. “This is not the first time that the Dalai Lama has been embroiled in such cases or rejected at the wrong time. All these stereotypes mask this sexual violence,” she said into the microphones week.
“Mr. We did not taint the Dalai Lama, he tainted himself. Here is a fact, an objective fact that is false. “Culture cannot be an excuse for sexual violence against children.”Plazas added to continue to condemn the spiritual leader’s actions.
This is not the only scandal facing the Dalai Lama. In 2018, when he visited Rotterdam in the Netherlands to publicly meet with a group of victims of sexual abuse, many Buddhists condemned the practice.
Various practitioners of Buddhism described how various European temple monks used them in various ways. Most of the students wanted to learn and find existential answers in retreat temples. There the monks not only extorted money from them and tortured them psychologically but also sexually abused them. Among the victims were minors.
The situation worsened when several journalists in the middle of the meeting asked the Dalai Lama about this situation, and he laughed and said that he had been aware of these facts since the early 1990s. “They are not new to me; I already knew all these things,” he said.. He admitted that since 1992 he had been receiving letters from victims telling him what had happened, which he did not explain and if he had already known, he would have done nothing.
Even so, he listened patiently and respectfully to the four victims of Rotterdam, and invited all who had passed through the same thing to tell it, and to name the saints who had done these deeds. “They should make public the identity of their assailant.So teachers worry about being humiliated.
The religious leader reminded all clerics that “self-discipline is important” and let the courts of each country judge the guilty. However, the surprising thing about the case is that he knew about it for almost three decades and kept it quiet.
Another scandal recalled medium radius Formula.mx About the cult leader’s possible connection to the sex slave sect, NXIVM, which was disbanded in 2018.
The sect was dedicated to turning women into sex slaves, where they were subjected to constant rape and forced to give their bodies for free at the behest of their leaders. Victims were forced to call themselves “slaves”, called “masters” and branded as cattle.
It was directed by American Keith Raniere, who in 2019 received a 120-year prison sentence for exposing these activities. He hid behind the facade of a large basement offering business and self-help courses. In addition, he undertook many charitable works.
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