A monk, Tenzin Belgor, who investigates the violence, speaks

Continue to discuss the video where you see the The Dalai Lama Ask an Indian child about it sucking his tongue He spoke about this issue through an interview with the newspaper Repubblica Tenzin Belgor who has been dealing for years with “the complex problems of Tibetan Buddhismas his blog states.

Belgor: “disturbing video”

About the Dalai Lama video, Belgor explained: “They sent me the short version days ago. At first I was shocked, I felt like I was going crazy, I was disgusted. It really hurt me. I couldn’t get that image out of my head. Then I read a very balanced article in Spiegel.” weekly.and looked it up The full version of the video“.

The blogger added that he found it interesting that it was the Indians who uploaded the whole video, adding a series of emojis with hugs and the like: “I still find it annoying and unacceptable, but perhaps it started – even by whoever uploaded the video – it was interpreted as A joke, an affectionate gesture.

“I met the Dalai Lama, the one who always tends to joke.”

Belgor, like other people from the Buddhist world, emphasized that the Dalai Lama is a very warm personality who often seeks physical contact.

“I met the Dalai Lama – said the blogger -, I can testify that he was always inclined to joke, physical contact, and I remember him with the Native Americans who took the jewelry they wore and put on a few centimeters from his house. He had laughing eyes. Other times he would take someone’s hair And he puts it on his chin like a beard. Sometimes, in an attempt to express closeness, he can cross some boundaries. This time, no doubt, it happened. But we need to investigate his intentions.

Then Belgor explained that the Buddhist community is currently divided. On the one hand, there are those who condemn the Dalai Lama without appeal, calling him a “filthy abomination”, on the other hand, those who defend him. But it must be said at once that those who defend it by saying that this gesture is a normal gesture of greeting in ancient Tibet are mistaken. The traditional salutation has absolutely nothing to do with the invitation to “suck your tongue,” Blewer noted.

“I have not seen the Dalai Lama commit a pedophile.”

When asked bluntly whether he thinks the Dalai Lama is a Child molesterBelgor answered thus: “How can I judge if a person is a pedophile? I am not a psychiatrist. But I, for many years, have not yet seen him commit a pedophile. But what I would like to know, what worries me is: How is the child , how are the parents doing? “.