The Dalai Lama has issued an apology after a video went viral showing him asking a young boy to suck his tongue.

I’ll be honest with you, when I saw this story going viral yesterday, I thought it was 100% fake. There’s absolutely no way the Dalai Lama asked a kid to suck his tongue. He absolutely did, and in fact, it was even weired than it sounds. In the video, the Dalai Lama is seen speaking with a little boy. It shows the boy asking the Dalai Lama for a hug, which he gets.  Then, things begin to get weird… The Dalai Lama then told the kid to kiss him on the cheek. Then, he asks for a kiss on the lips, which the boy accepts. If you’rte not incredibly creeped out enough, he then asked the boy to suck his tongue, while sticking out his tongue. Luckily, that does NOT happen, although for a second it looks like it might.

You can see the video below, followed by the Dalai Lama’s apology which he released on Instagram.