A weird video of the Dalai Lama asking an Indian boy to ‘suck his tongue’

This is what’s confusing me. Asking someone to suck your tongue is such a weird thing to ask - I literally had no idea this was a thing until just now. And absolutely nobody in that video seems to think this is weird. It makes me wonder if there isn’t some cultural aspect here that we’re misunderstanding. You can say people were “being polite” but this wouldn’t happen in any western country I know of without the crowd giving a negative reaction. I’m just not ready to buy that this is blatantly public pedophilia by an otherwise respected public figure given my limited knowledge of Asian culture. Even Epstein didn’t conduct his pedophilia on camera in front of the press.

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