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The Panchen Lama

In 1995 the Dalai Lama recognized 5-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama. Shortly thereafter the Chinese government took the young boy into custody and appointed its own Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, viewed by most Tibetans as a puppet of the state. Gedhun Choekyi Nima is still missing. In 2005 Tibetan blogger Woeser wrote the following poem on the tenth anniversary of his disappearance.

For more information on the Panchen Lama and religious repression in Tibet please see the ICT report The Communist Party as the Living Buddha.

For English translations of Tibetan writers, including Woeser, please visit High Peaks Pure Earth.


Photo: Tenzing Paljor

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