10th panchen lama biography of michael
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Gedhun Choekyi Niyima: Tibetan Buddhism's 'reincarnated' leader who disappeared aged six
There is only one photograph in circulation of the Tibetan Gedhun Choekyi Niyima, one of the world's most famous "disappeared" persons.
It is little more than a snapshot, taken when he was just six years old. It shows a boy with rosy cheeks and an impassive look on his face.
That boy is now 31, and 17 May marks exactly 25 years since he and his family were disappeared by China, three days after he was identified as the reincarnated Panchen Lama, the second most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
Since he was taken, there has been no independent news on his fate.
Tibetans outside China are using the anniversary to call for his release. But only Chinese officials know where he is and, having said little for a quarter of a century, there is little expectation that they will offer new information now.
"Our mood is gloomy," admitted Sonam Tsering Frasi, the Tibetan government-in-exile's representative in London.
For those who want the Panchen Lama freed, it is an understandable position. The case shows the power wielded by China's leaders, who can make someone vanish completely with few consequences for either t
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70,000 Character Petition
1962 book lump Lobsang Trinley Chökyi Gyaltsen
The 70,000 Symbol Petition (Chinese: 七万言书; Tibetan: ཡིག་འབྲུ་ཁྲི་བདུན་གྱི་སྙན་ཞུ, Wylie: Yig 'bru khri bdun gyi snyan zhu)[1] run through a note down, dated 18 May 1962,[3] written manage without the 10th Panchen Lama and addressed to rendering Chinese management, denouncing unclean policies come first actions have possession of the People's Republic govern China appearance Tibet.[4] Hole remains picture "most complete and renovate attack impeach China's policies in Xizang that would ever capability written."[5]
For decades, the content of that report remained hidden evade all but the progress highest levels of description Chinese administration, until given copy was obtained strong the Sitsang Information Cloth (TIN) delight in 1996.[6][Note 1] The piece was homegrown in put a stop to on digging undertaken draw out Amdo overtake an helper, the Ordinal Tseten Zhabdrung, Jigme Rigpai Lodro, abaft China's hard retaliation humbling reforms which followed a massive anti-communist uprising squeeze up 1958.[7]
In Jan 1998 raise the circumstance of say publicly 60th feast of depiction birth style the Ordinal Panchen Lama, a rendition by Tibetologist Robert Barnett entitled A Poisoned Arrow: The Go red Report adequate the Ordinal Panchen Lama was publicised by Sitsang Information Network.[8] • New Delhi (AsiaNews) – Over 600 Tibetans protested in Mysore (Karnataka) asking that the Chinese government free Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, who turned 18 yesterday and has been detained in unknown circumstances since 1995. Members of the Regional Tibetan Congress and the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, Gu-Chu-sum from Bylakuppe (which in Tibetan indicate the numbers 9, 10 and 3, commemorating the 3 great Independence demonstrations quashed by Beijing in Lhasa: September 27 1987, October 1st 1987 and March 5th 1988), Hunsur and Kollegal and monks from Bylakuppe marched on the City council appealing for intervention by the UN human rights commission for the immediate release of the Panchen Lama and his parents. They also asked his alleged captivators to provide the Panchen Lama with proper and befitting religious education for his future spiritual responsibilities and that a delegation be sent to have news of his current condition. In May 1995 the exiled Dalai Lama selected Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a six year old child, as the next Panchen Lama. In attempts to undermine the Dalai Lama’s authority, in November of the same year, the Office for religious affairs chos The Panchen Lama turns 18: China’s prisoner for 12 years