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The 11th Panchen Lama controversy centers on the 29 year-long enforced disappearance [1] of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, and on the recognition of the 11th Panchen Lama. The Panchen Lama is considered the second most important spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism [2] [3] [4] after the Dalai Lama. Following the death [2] [4] of the 10th Panchen Lama ...
After the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, his succession came to be disputed between the exiled 14th Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China.This resulted in a schism between two competing candidates are claimed to be the 11th Panchen Lama.
10th Panchen Lama in 1959 10th Panchen Lama during a struggle session in 1964, before his imprisonment. When the Ninth Panchen Lama died in 1937, two simultaneous searches for the tenth Panchen Lama produced two competing candidates, with the Dalai Lama's officials selecting a boy from Xikang and the Panchen Lama's officials picking Gonpo ...
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (born 25 April 1989 [1]) is the 11th Panchen Lama belonging to the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, as recognized and announced by the 14th Dalai Lama on 14 May 1995. Three days later on 17 May, the six-year-old Panchen Lama was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government, after the State Council of the ...
Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, 1st Panchen Lama (1385–1438 CE) – better known as Khedrup Je – was one of the main disciples of Je Tsongkhapa, whose reforms to Atiśa's Kadam tradition are considered the beginnings of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Gyaincain Norbu was born on 13 February 1990 in Lhari County in northern Tibet Autonomous Region. [3] [4] He had been living in Beijing during his early childhood to be educated in a Chinese way, and travelled to Tashilhunpo Monastery for his enthronement in November/December 1995, in Shigatse, the official seat of the Panchen Lamas. [5]
They were not mistreated. After less than a month of propaganda sessions, they were escorted to the Indian border and released. [59] In April 1959, the 19-year-old Panchen Lama, the second ranking spiritual leader in Tibet, residing in Shigatse, called on Tibetans to support the Chinese government. [60]
Tenpai Wangchuk (1855–1882) was the eighth Panchen Lama of Tibet. 8th Panchen Lama, Tenpai Wangchuk, also known as Namgyal Wangdui Gyaltsen, was born in 1855 in Namling County (རྣམ་གླིང་རྫོང་། 南木林), Shigatse prefecture, western Tibet. He was born into an aristocratic family of Nyingma school. One member of ...