“It’s just the old tradition! Pure buddhism!” People apparently only need to show a thing in a religious light and deprogrammers will jump in with their support.
Edit: i look now, the two pedo defenders got purged, but in the meantime my apparently very hot take was downvoted:
It’s the Dalai Lama, not some Tibwtan dude in the country who has never left his home town. He’s been other places