{"id":277830,"date":"2026-02-10T00:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=277830"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:10:55","slug":"institution-of-dalai-lama-mustnt-be-dragged-khandu-on-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/institution-of-dalai-lama-mustnt-be-dragged-khandu-on-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Institution of Dalai Lama mustn&#8217;t be dragged: Khandu on &#8216;Epstein files&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 9 Feb:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday said that the &#8220;revered institution of the Dalai Lama&#8221; must not be dragged into baseless narratives or malicious speculations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khandu made the statement over reports claiming that Dalai Lama&#8217;s name appeared in Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Attempts to malign a sacred spiritual institution through misinformation are deeply irresponsible and condemnable,&#8221; Khandu shared in social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The office of Dalai Lama in a statement said, &#8220;Some recent media reports and social media posts concerning the &#8216;Epstein files&#8217; are attempting to link His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Jeffrey Epstein.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;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&#8217; behalf,&#8221; the statement added. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 9 Feb: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday said that the &#8220;revered institution of the Dalai Lama&#8221; must not be dragged into baseless narratives or malicious speculations. Khandu made the statement over reports claiming that Dalai Lama&#8217;s name appeared in Epstein files. &#8220;Attempts to malign a sacred spiritual institution through misinformation are deeply irresponsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277833,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277830\/revisions\/277833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}