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Traditionally, the Panchen Lama is the head of Tashilhunpo Monastery, and holds religious and secular power over the Tsang region centered in Shigatse, independent of the Ganden Podrang authority led by the Dalai Lama. [7] [8] The Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama are closely connected, and each participates in the process of recognizing the other's ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The 10th Dalai Lama died in 1837. In 1841, the 7th Panchen Lama recognised the 11th Dalai Lama, administered the pre-novice vows and named him Khedrup Gyatso. [9] [10] In 1844, the 7th Panchen Lama had a summer palace built about 1 km south of Tashilhunpo Monastery containing 2 chapels in walled gardens.
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]
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The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking tulku lineage in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The "Tashi" or Panchen Lama had temporal power over three small districts, though not over the town of Shigatse itself, which was administered by a dzongpön (prefect) appointed from Lhasa. [5]