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Selena Gomez banned from China over photo with Dalai Lama
Scores of Hollywood celebrities have expressed their admiration for the Dalai Lama. However, there is speculation that one of those celebrities, Selena Gomez, may have been denied the opportunity to perform in China as a result of her support for the spiritual leader.
The singer was scheduled to perform in Guangzhou and Shanghai in August as part of her Revival tour, which will begin in May. Those performance dates, however, are no longer listed on her official website.
The performance dates were canceled, according to a Chinese entertainment website, due to a two-year-old photo of Gomez and the Dalai Lama.
In 2014, Selena shared a photo on social media of herself with the Dalai Lama, a controversial figure in China since fleeing to India and establishing a Tibetan republic.

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He is well-known for his support for Tibet’s autonomy and for his conflicting views on reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism.
The photo is no longer on Gomez’s Instagram account, but it still still on her Twitter account.
A sitting Selena is leaning her head back and smiling at the leader as he strokes the back of her head and chin and looks down on her in the photo, which was shot at an event in Canada. In the caption, she wrote, “words of wisdom. #speechless.”
Gomez has yet to respond to the rumored banning.
If Gomez is forbidden from performing in China as a result of the photo, she will join a small number of musicians who have been denied permission to do so.
Bon Jovi’s September 2015 shows were canceled after they were accused of using a photograph of the exiled Buddhist monk at a concert in Taiwan in 2010.
Last year, Maroon 5’s gigs in Shanghai and Beijing were apparently canceled when band member Jesse Carmichael wrote a birthday message to the spiritual leader.
This isn’t the first time the Gomez has been prohibited in a country. The music artist was denied a visa by Russia in 2013 because the administration was concerned that she might speak out against the country’s anti-gay policies.


