14th Dalai Lama

=== Comments on a potential female Dalai Lama ===
In 2010, the Dalai Lama told a reporter that the first time someone asked him about the possibility of a female Dalai Lama, he said "if she is an ugly female, she won't be very effective, will she?"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mabe |first=Rachel |date=8 December 2021 |title=When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/08/meditation-spirtual-sexism-womens-retreats |access-date=14 April 2022 |website=the Guardian |language=en |archive-date=8 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608114052/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/08/meditation-spirtual-sexism-womens-retreats |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015 he said at one occasion, "more than 50 years ago" in Paris, he said the line to a reporter of a women's magazine, that "if female Dalai Lama comes, the face should be very, very attractive."<ref>{{Citation |title=Dalai Lama: Do not reject refugees because they are Muslim - BBC News |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxkYW74HUUs |language=en |access-date=23 September 2022 |archive-date=23 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923171042/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxkYW74HUUs |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, when he was asked about the comment, he repeated it with a laugh, saying that although the real beauty is inner beauty, for human beings, the appearance is also very important.<ref>{{Citation |title=Dalai Lama Says Any Female Successor Would Need To Be 'Attractive' |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STgsoKqRis |language=en |access-date=23 September 2022 |archive-date=23 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923171043/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STgsoKqRis |url-status=live }}</ref> In response to the controversy sparked by the interview, his office released a statement to clarify his remarks and put them into context, expressing that the Dalai Lama "is deeply sorry that people have been hurt by what he said and offers his sincere apologies." The statement explains, the original context of the Dalai Lama's referring to the physical appearance of a female successor was a conversation with the then Paris editor of ''Vogue'' magazine, who had invited His Holiness in 1992 to guest-edit the next edition. She asked if a future Dalai Lama could be a woman. His Holiness replied, 'Certainly, if that would be more helpful,' adding, as a joke, that she should be attractive.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lama |first=The 14th Dalai |date=23 September 2022 |title=Clarification and Context of Remarks Made by His |url=https://www.dalailama.com/news/2019/clarification-and-context-of-remarks-made-by-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-in-a-recent-bbc-interview |access-date=23 September 2022 |website=The 14th Dalai Lama |language=en}}</ref> The statement also noted, the Dalai Lama "consistently emphasizes the need for people to connect with each other on a deeper human level, rather than getting caught up in preconceptions based on superficial appearances."<ref name="Rodriguez"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chhatlani |first=Harshita |date=5 July 2019 |title=The Dalai Lama Has Been Sexist Longer Than You Have Known |url=https://feminisminindia.com/2019/07/05/the-dalai-lama-sexist/ |access-date=14 April 2022 |website=Feminism In India |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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