Choekyi Gyaltsen

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Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen (February 19, 1938 – January 28, 1989) was the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet. He was often referred to simply as Choekyi Gyaltsen (which can be Choekyi Gyaltse, Choskyi Gyantsen, etc.), although this is also the name of several other notable figures in Tibetan history.

Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen
Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་ཕྲིན་ལས་ལྷུན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
Wylie: Blo-bzang Phrin-las Lhun-grub Chos-kyi Rgyal-mtshan
ZWPY: Lobsang Chinlai Lhünchub Qoigyi Gyaicain

He was born on February 19, 1938 in Xunhua County, a Tibetan area of Qinghai Province Province, to Gonpo Tseten and Sonam Drolma and given the name Gonpo Tseten. On June 3, 1949, officials of the Ninth Panchen Lama recognized Gonpo Tseten as the tenth incarnation of the Panchen Lama. He was enthroned on June 11, 1949 in Amdo (Qinghai) under the auspice of Chinese officials after the KMT administration approved the selection.^[1] He was not recognised by the Dalai Lama until the beginning of negotiations on the 17-Point Agreement in 1951.

In 1956, the Panchen Lama went to India on a pilgrimage together with the Dalai Lama. When the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959, the Panchen Lama decided to stay.

After a tour through Tibet, in May 1962, he met Zhou Enlai to discuss a petition he had written, criticizing the situation in Tibet. The initial reaction was positive, but in October 1962, the PRC authorities dealing with the population criticized the petition. The Panchen's situation worsened when the Cultural Revolution began.

In 1968 he was imprisoned; in October 1977, he was released but held under house arrest in Beijing until 1982. After his release, he was considered by the PRC authorities to be politically rehabilitated and he then rose to important positions. He served as Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress.

In 1979, he married a Chinese woman and in 1983 they had a daughter (Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo, [1]), which was considered highly controversial behavior for a Gelug lama.

In 1989, the 10th Panchen Lama died suddenly in Shigatse, Tibet at the age of 51.

[edit] External links

The 10th Panchen Lama by Yukiyasu Osada
The 10th Panchen Lama (International Campaign for Tibet)
Tibet Marks 14th Anniversary of 10th Panchen Lama's Death (Chinese Embassy in Australia, November 24th, 2003)
The passing away and last words of the Tenth Panchen Lama (China.org.cn)

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