Rigzin Genkhang, Representative of Office of Tibet Brussels for La Libre
Back to this controversy about the Dalai Lama asking a child to “eat his tongue”. The manipulated video and its misinterpretation of facts taken out of context is yet another example of the communication war against a spiritual and political leader feared by Xi Jinping’s China.
A white card from Rigzin Genkhang, representative of the Dalai Lama to the EU, Western Europe and the Maghreb
On April 8, 2023, the Twitter account opened only in February under a Chinese name “Yin Sun”, which had remained inactive until then, published an excerpt from a 20-second manipulated video showing His Holiness the Dalai Lama with a young Indian boy, forty days after the events of February 28, 2023. On the same day this publication was viewed 7.3 million times, which requires the use of powerful robots for multiplication from an account opened only a little more one month.
This manipulated video provoked violent criticism of the Dalai Lama
Since its publication, an erroneous interpretation of the extract from this video and the facts taken out of context has been circulating and certain media (television channels or radio stations) have taken up this information without taking into account due diligence devoid of cultural and situational context, which provoked violent criticism of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
This deeply hurt the Tibetan people, in Belgium and around the world, as well as the Buddhist community as a whole.
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