Dalai Lama denies assembly paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after identify seems in information | EUROtoday

The Dalai Lama has denied ever assembly paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein after he was named dozens of occasions within the newest in a lot of releases often known as the Epstein information.

The workplace for the religious chief of Tibetan Buddhism launched an announcement on Sunday in response to “social media posts… attempting to link His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Jeffrey Epstein”.

There are greater than 150 references to the Dalai Lama within the full Epstein library, which incorporates greater than 3 million new pages added by the US Justice Department on the finish of January.

In correspondence from 2015, Epstein informed associates of his plans to fulfill with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. One e-mail to Epstein requested if a dinner with the Buddhist chief was “fixed”, to which Epstein solely replied: “Talk Tomorw” [sic].

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The Dalai Lama, now 90, is just not accused of any wrongdoing. In a brand new assertion, his workplace denied that he had ever met Epstein.

“Some recent media reports and social media posts concerning the ‘Epstein files’ are attempting to link His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Jeffrey Epstein,” it learn.

“We can unequivocally confirm that His Holiness has never met Jeffrey Epstein or authorised any meeting or interaction with him by anyone on His Holiness’s behalf.”

The newest tranche of emails means that Epstein was attempting to rearrange a dinner with the Dalai Lama, well-known linguist Noam Chomsky and Woody Allen in May 2015.

Epstein wrote on 10 May 2015 {that a} “fun dinner would be dali lama [sic]. woody allen chomsky?”, including: “lets do it”.

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Joi Ito, responding, implied Epstein had not but met the exiled chief, writing, “Yes. First step would be to meet Tenzin” and suggesting an unnamed scholar may “get us the Dalai Lama”.

The subsequent day, Epstein emailed a contact saved as Soon Yi Previn, Allen’s spouse, writing: “im working on the dalai lama for dinner.”

Four days later, he obtained an e-mail from scientist Lawrence Krauss, asking: “is dinner with woody and dali lama [sic] on may 19th fixed?”

The Dalai Lama is the top of Tibetan Buddhism and has lived in exile since 1959, when he fled to northern India following unrest over the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

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He formally gave up political duties in 2011 to the Tibetan authorities in exile, however stays the foremost non secular chief of the Tibetan group and diaspora.

The 14th Dalai Lama was additionally caught in controversy in 2023 after asking a toddler to suck his tongue at his temple in Dharamashala.

In broadly shared footage, the Dalai Lama was heard asking a younger boy to kiss him on his cheek after which his lips after the boy requested if he may give him a hug.

The Dalai Lama pressed his brow to the kid’s earlier than protruding his tongue and saying “and suck my tongue”. The video attracted criticism from rights activists.

Penpa Tsering, the top of Tibet’s authorities in exile, defended the Dalai Lama on the time, saying his actions have been “innocent” and solely demonstrated his “affectionate behaviour”.

The workplace of the Dalai Lama apologised “for the hurt his words may have caused”, explaining that “his Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras”, however including: “he regrets the incident”.