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((short description|Controversy over the Panchen Lama succession))
((Use dmy dates|date=September 2020))
((More citations needed|date=December 2020))
[[File:Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 6 yrs & 30 yrs.jpeg|thumb|507x370px|Picture of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima before his abduction at 6 years of age (left), and a forensic image of him at 30 years of age (right), by Tim Widden]]

The '''11th Panchen Lama controversy''' centers on the 28 year-long enforced disappearance<ref>((Cite web |last=Tsering |first=Dawa |date=2023-05-17 |title=DIIR Statement on 28th Anniversary of Enforced Disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama |url=https://tibet.net/diir-statement-on-28th-anniversary-of-enforced-disappearance-of-11th-panchen-lama/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Central Tibetan Administration |language=en-US))</ref> of [[Gedhun Choekyi Nyima]] and on the recognition of the 11th [[Panchen Lama|Kunsik Panchen Lama]]. The Panchen Lama is considered the second most important spiritual leader in [[Tibetan Buddhism]]<ref name="Asia">((Cite web |last=Ehrlich |first=Richard S. |date=2019-05-08 |title=Mystery surrounds kidnapped Panchen Lama |url=https://asiatimes.com/2019/05/missing-panchen-lama-may-now-be-30/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Asia Times |language=en-US))</ref><ref>((Cite news |date=2015-05-17 |title=China urged to release Panchen Lama after 20 years |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32771242 |access-date=2023-06-15))</ref><ref name="CTA">
((Cite web |last=yangchen |date=2019-04-25 |title=As Tibetans mark 30th birthday of Panchen Lama in Absentia, China is urged to release the 2nd highest Tibetan Spiritual Leader held captive for 24 years |url=https://tibet.net/as-tibetans-mark-30th-birthday-of-panchen-lama-in-absentia-china-is-urged-to-release-the-2nd-highest-tibetan-spiritual-leader-held-captive-for-24-years/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Central Tibetan Administration |language=en-US))</ref> after the Dalai Lama. Following the death<ref name=Asia/><ref name=CTA/> of the [[10th Panchen Lama]], the [[14th Dalai Lama]] recognized [[Gedhun Choekyi Nyima]] in 1995. Three days later, the [[China|People's Republic of China (PRC)]] abducted the Panchen Lama and his family. Months later, the PRC chose [[Gyaincain Norbu]] as its proxy<ref>((Cite web |title=In Tibet, A Long-Banned Buddhist Rite Takes Place, But Not Everyone's Pleased |url=https://wamu.org/story/16/07/24/in_tibet_a_long_banned_buddhist_rite_takes_place_but_not_everyones_pleased/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=WAMU |language=en))</ref> Panchen Lama. During the traditional search process led by [[Chadrel Rinpoche]], he indicated to the Dalai Lama that all signs pointed to Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, while the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas recognize each other's incarnations. The PRC had established its own search committee, which included Chatral Rinpoche and other monks, and wanted to use a lottery system referred to as the [[Golden Urn]]. Neither Gedhun Choekyi Nyima nor his family have been seen since the abduction. Chatral Rinpoche was also arrested by Chinese authorities the day of the abduction.

== Recognition and abduction ==
Before his death, the 10th Panchen Lama, [[Choekyi Gyaltsen]], had been held for 15 years as a political prisoner of China, and after his release wrote the [[70,000 Character Petition]] to [[Mao Zedong]] on 18 May 1962. The Petition assessed China's occupation of Tibet, expressed a list of grievances of Tibetans, and claimed that China's ''"use of routine propaganda regarding revolution, liberation, democratic reform and the so-called 'socialist paradise' was "pure deception"."''<ref name=CTA/> He again was critical of Chinese policies in Tibet five days before his death on 28 January 1989, and Tibetans intensified the ongoing [[1987-1989 Tibetan unrest|protests]] afterwards.

As a Tibetan search process began, the Chinese state-run CCTV network states that three days after the death of the 10th Panchen Lama,<ref name="Sohu-20050412">((cite news |title=第十世班禅大师的圆寂和遗言-搜狐新闻中心 |trans-title=The death and last words of the 10th Panchen Lama |url=http://news.sohu.com/20050412/n225154033.shtml |accessdate=16 September 2020 |work=[[CCTV International Network]] |via=[[Sohu.com]] |date=12 April 2005))</ref> the Premier of the State Council published its decision on how the 11th Panchen Lama would be selected based on the feedback gathered from the committee of [[Tashi Lhunpo Monastery]] and monks on 30 January 1989.<ref name="Goldstein101">Goldstein 1997, p. 101</ref><ref>((cite news |url=https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/%E5%9B%BD%E5%8A%A1%E9%99%A2%E5%85%B3%E4%BA%8E%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%96%E7%8F%AD%E7%A6%85%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%88%E6%B2%BB%E4%B8%A7%E5%92%8C%E8%BD%AC%E4%B8%96%E9%97%AE%E9%A2%98%E7%9A%84%E5%86%B3%E5%AE%9A |title=国务院关于第十世班禅大师治丧和转世问题的决定 ))</ref><ref name="Sohu-20050412" /><ref>((Cite web |title=十世班禅转世灵童的寻访认定--党的各项工作--中国共产党新闻网 |trans-title=The Search and Identification of the Reincarnated Soul Boy of the 10th Panchen Lama |url=http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64107/65708/65722/4444486.html |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=cpc.people.com.cn |language=zh))</ref>

Many Tibetans would not consider the 11th Panchen Lama incarnation legitimate unless he were identified according to Tibetan traditional means, including a search by the 10th Panchen Lama's closest Khenpos based on [[dream]]s and [[omen]]s, and a formal recognition by the Dalai Lama.<ref name="Goldstein1001">Goldstein 1997, pp. 100–1</ref> Often, the [[Nechung Oracle]] was also consulted. By 1994, five years after the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, ordinarily, the 11th Panchen Lama would have already been identified.<ref name="Hilton6">Hilton 2000, pg. 6</ref>((Clarify|date=September 2020|reason=Timeline is confusing/ambiguous: jumping 5 years ahead on the previous sentence.))  The Nechung Oracle in [[Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh|Dharamsala]] had been consulted on the matter.<ref name="Hilton9">Hilton 2000, pg. 9</ref>

The leaders of the Chinese government wanted a process under their authority. Beijing planned to use a group of monks  to identify a group of candidates, not only one, and then to use the golden urn to randomly select one of them, and to exclude the Dalai Lama from the process altogether.<ref name="Goldstein1001"/>

Beijing later allowed Tashi Lhunpo Monastery's head Khenpo [[Chadrel Rinpoche]], the head of the search team, to communicate with the Dalai Lama in hopes that a mutually acceptable process and candidate could be accomplished.<ref>((Cite web |title=Canada Tibet Committee ((!)) Library ((!)) WTN ((!)) Archive ((!)) Old |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/archive/old?y=1997&m=5&p=9_1#& |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=archive.wikiwix.com))</ref>((citation needed|date=October 2020))

In March 1995, Chinese government officials proposed drawing a name from three to five slips in the urn.  On 14 May 1995, the Dalai Lama preempted the officials' drawing of names by publicly recognizing Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th Panchen Lama.<ref name="Goldstein1026">Goldstein 1997, pp. 102–6</ref>

On 17 May, the Chinese government abducted the recognized Panchen Lama. Then in November 1995 they selected a different boy, [[Gyaincain Norbu]], using the golden urn lottery system.  This decision was immediately denounced by the Dalai Lama. China continues to detain Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his family in a place whose location has not been divulged to the public.<ref name="Goldstein109">Goldstein, 1997, pp. 102-6</ref>

Chadrel Rinpoche, the Panchen Lama's senior Khenpo, was arrested at the [[Chamdo]] Airport while returning from Beijing, on 14 May 1995.<ref>((Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=1997-05-08 |title=Senior Tibetan Monk Given Jail Term by China |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/08/world/senior-tibetan-monk-given-jail-term-by-china.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |issn=0362-4331))</ref> Two years later on 8 May 1997, Chadrel Rinpoche was sentenced to six years in prison for [[splittism]] and betraying state secrets.<ref>((Cite web |title=Tashi Lhunpo Monastery |url=https://tashilhunpo.org/the-panchen-lamas/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=tashilhunpo.org))</ref><ref name="Goldstein107">Goldstein 1997, pg. 107</ref> He was then incarcerated in China, re-incarcerated under house arrest in a Chinese military camp near [[Lhasa]], and the [[Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization]] reports he died of poisoning in 2011.<ref>((Cite web |title=UNPO: Tibet: Suspicious Death of Panchen Lama Search Leader |url=https://unpo.org/article/13525 |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=unpo.org))</ref>

The Dalai Lama has denounced China by saying ''"the person who reincarnates has sole legitimate authority over where and how he or she takes rebirth and how that reincarnation is to be recognized."'' ''"It is a reality that no one else can force the person concerned, or manipulate him or her,"'' ''"It is particularly inappropriate for Chinese communists, who explicitly reject even the idea of past and future lives, let alone the concept of reincarnate [[Tulku|Tulkus]], to meddle in the system of reincarnation and especially the reincarnations of the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas." ''<ref name="CNN">((Cite web |last=Griffiths |first=James |date=2020-05-20 |title=A boy chosen as the Panchen Lama disappeared in 1995. China says he's now a college grad with a job |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/asia/china-tibet-panchen-lama-dalai-lama-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=CNN |language=en))</ref>

==Recent developments==


In April 2019, U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern said the Panchen Lama "will mark his 30th birthday as one of the world's longest-held prisoners of conscience", and referred to his enforced disappearance as a violation of the religious freedom of Tibetan Buddhists while also stating that the alternative Panchen Lama has been victimized by China as "a consequence of its policies to undermine and control the Tibetan people."<ref name=Asia/>

Earlier on 26 April 2018, the U.S. State Department issued a statement, ''"On April 25, we marked the birthday of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who has not appeared in public since he was reportedly abducted two decades ago by the Chinese government at age six."'' The statement also called for the immediate release of the 11th Panchen Lama.<ref name="dos">((Cite web |last= |date=2018-04-27 |title=US State Department Calls for the Immediate Release of Tibet's Panchen Lama |url=https://tibet.net/us-state-department-calls-for-the-immediate-release-of-tibets-panchen-lama/ |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Central Tibetan Administration |language=en-US))</ref>

As of 2020, the Panchen Lama has been held as a political prisoner for 25 years. Five [[United Nations]] committees have opened cases,<ref name=CTA/> while numerous governments, including the European Parliament, Canada, U.K., and U.S. have called for China to release the 11th Panchen Lama.<ref>((Cite web |last= |date=2020-05-17 |title=25 years on, Tibetans still await release of 11th Panchen Lama |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/shimla/25-years-tibetans-still-await-release-11th-panchen-lama-1502889865.html |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=The Statesman |language=en-US))</ref>

An April 2020 joint petition prepared by 159 organizations spanning 18 countries requests the United Nations to pressure China for the Panchen Lama's release, as well as the release of his family.<ref name=Tpost>David Thomas, Tibet Post International,"159 Organizations Call on UN to Pressure China to Free 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet", 07 May 2020,
http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/impact/politics/6763-159-organisations-call-on-un-to-pressure-china-to-free-11th-panchen-lama-of-tibet</ref>

In May 2020, CNN reports that the Central Tibetan Administration stated, ''"China's abduction of the Panchen Lama and forcible denial of his religious identity and the right to practice in his monastery is not only a violation of religious freedom but also a gross violation of human rights."''<ref name=CNN/>

== References ==
=== Citations ===
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=== Sources ===
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* Goldstein, Melvyn C. ''The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama'' (1997) University of California Press. ((ISBN|0-520-21951-1))
* Hilton, Elizabeth. ''The Search for the Panchen Lama'' (2000) W. W. Norton & Company. ((ISBN|0-393-04969-8))
* Kuzmin S.L. [https://www.academia.edu/35431473/Kuzmin_S.L._2017._Management_as_a_Tool_of_Destruction_Reincarnation_of_Living_Buddhas_in_Modern_Chinese_Legislation Management as a tool of destruction. Reincarnation of "Living Buddhas" in modern Chinese legislation. – The Tibet Journal, vol. 42, no 1, pp. 37-48.]
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