Dalai Lama Apologizes for Comment on Female Successor

Dalai Lama Apologizes for Comment on Female Successor
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The Dalai Lama has apologised for saying his successor would have to be attractive if they were a woman or they would be "not much use".

The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism had said: "If female Dalai Lama comes, then she should be more attractive."

He had been questioned in a recent BBC interview about previous comments he had made in 2015, when he said that a female successor would need to be "very, very attractive", as otherwise she would be "not much use".

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