He was at least partially responding to the unfamiliar ambience of working with a team whose prime focus was the world of high fashion," the statement said. NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Dalai Lama is 'deeply sorry' about comments he made about women in a recent BBC interview, his office said in a statement on Tuesday (July 2). His Holiness replied, 'Certainly, if that would be more helpful,' adding, as a joke, that she should be attractive. "She asked if a future Dalai Lama could be a woman. It said that the original context of his referring to the physical appearance of a female successor was a conversation with the then Paris editor of Vogue magazine. "For all his long life, His Holiness has opposed the objectification of women, has supported women and their rights and celebrated the growing international consensus in support of gender equality and respect for women," it added. He regrets any offence that may have been given. Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama leads a prayer in the Indian state of Bihar on Jan. "However, it sometimes happens that off the cuff remarks, which might be amusing in one cultural context, lose their humour in translation when brought into another. Kunga Palmo Birth Place: Tsang Tanak, Tibet 3rd Dalai Lama: Sonam Gyatso b. "His Holiness, a monk now in his mid-eighties, has a keen sense of the contradictions between the materialistic, globalized world he encounters on his travels and the complex, more esoteric ideas about reincarnation that are at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist tradition," the new statement said. Jomo Namkyi Birth Place: Sakya, Tsang, Tibet 2nd Dalai Lama: Gendun Gyatso b. that people, I think prefer, not see her, that face." "If female Dalai Lama comes, then she should be more attractive," he had said. The 14th and incumbent Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives in exile as a refugee in India. The comments, which attracted criticism around the world, were made in an interview with the British broadcaster aired last week from the Nobel peace prize winner's exile in Dharamsala in India. "He is deeply sorry that people have been hurt by what he said and offers his sincere apologies."
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