Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama

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Thubten Choekyi Nyima (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་; Wylie: Thub-bstan Chos-kyi Nyi-ma; ZWPY: Tubdain Qoigyi Nyima) (1883 – 1937), often referred to as Choekyi Nyima, was the 9th Panchen Lama of Tibet.

He fled to Inner Mongolia, China in 1924 after a dispute with the Thirteenth Dalai Lama when he sensed that he might face threat after his own monastery’s monks were being prohibited from holding any office in the Central Tibetan government and his officials being locked up in Lhasa.^[1]

In China, the 9th Panchen Lama studied plan to develop Tibet along modern line.^[2]

In 1937, he died in Gyêgu (Jyekundo; Chinese: Yushu) in Qinghai Province.

Preceded by: Tenpe Wangchuk

Reincarnation of the Panchen Lama

Succeeded by: Choekyi Gyaltsen