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Thirty years ago, on 17 May 1995, before he could speak his first words as a spiritual leader or sit among his people, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was abducted by Chinese authorities. He was just six years old. Since that day, neither he nor his family has been seen.
Born on 25 April 1989 in Lhari County, Tibet, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was a child whose destiny was to rise far beyond the remoteness of his birthplace. At the age of six, he was formally recognised by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama – the second-highest spiritual figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
What should have been a sacred milestone in Tibetan religious tradition instead marked the beginning of one of the longest and most egregious cases of enforced disappearance in modern history. The Panchen Lama, then only a child, became the world’s youngest political pri...
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