Release Panchen Lama and end control over Tibetan Buddhism: HRW to China

11 months ago

Tsering Dhundup

DHARAMSHALA, May 15: The New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has renewed calls on for the immediate release of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, and his family, marking the 30th anniversary of their enforced disappearance by Chinese authorities on May 17, 1995.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, recognised by the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as the legitimate reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism, was abducted at the age of six, just three days after the Dalai Lama’s announcement...

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