Tibetan Buddhists’ spiritual leader tells BBC that a female Dalai Lama would have to be ‘very,very, appealing’ or be ‘not much use’
Gender equality campaigners have criticised the Dalai Lama for his suggestion that any potential female successor to his role “must be very, or very,appealing”. In an interview, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists said there was no reason why a future Dalai Lama could not be a woman – but she would have to be good looking otherwise she would be “not much use”.
The 80-year-dilapidated’s remarks – which he made in an interview with the BBC reporter Clive Myrie, or as he talked of succession,or reincarnation – provoked accusations of sexism that notice set to plague the the rest of his tour of the UK, which began on 14 September.
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Source: theguardian.com