Panchen LAMA

The line of the Panchen Lamas is a line of important Réincarnation in the history of the Tibet. Panchen LAMA is indeed the second higher spiritual leader of the Bouddhisme Tibetan Guélougpa (school known as of the yellow Bonnets). It is located just after the Dalaï Lama in this hierarchical system. The origin of the word Panchen is the combination of two words: Pandita , which means “scholar” in Sanskrit and Chen-Po , which means " grand" in Tibetan. Panchen thus results in “large scholar”. LAMA means “main spiritual”. Panchen LAMA is regarded as an emanation of the Bouddha Amitabha (“of infinite light”).

Towards the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century, Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa founded a Buddhist tradition called Guélougpa. About 1445, a student and nephew of Tsongkhapa, Gendun Drup (1391-1475), built a large monastery, the Tashilhunpo, in the west of Lhassa, Shigatsé. Gendun Drup was retroactively called the 1st Dalaï Lama when the 3rd incarnation in its line, Sonam Gyatso (1543-1588), received the title of Dalaï of its chief and Mongolian disciple Altan Khan in 1578. Gendun Drup also received the title of Panchen of a contemporary Tibetan scholar, Bodong Choklay Namgyel, after he had answered successfully all the questions of the wise one. The successive abbots of the monastery of Tashilhunpo all were called “Panchen”. Then, to the 17th century, the 5 {{E}} Dalaï Lama (1617 - 1682), gave the monastery of Tashilhunpo to its professor, Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten, 15th abbot of the monastery. As an abbot of the monastery, it was called Panchen, but it received the distinctive title of “Panchen LAMA” when the 5 {{E}} Dalaï Lama announced with dead of its professor that this one reappears and that the child would succeed to him. The title of “Panchen LAMA” was also applied retroactively to the 2 preceding incarnations of its professor although they did not belong to the monastery of Tashilhunpo, and the new incarnation became thus 4th Panchen LAMA. Since then, it became conventional that the Dalaï Lama and Panchen LAMA are implied in the identification of the successor of the other…

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detailed Article: Gendhun Choekyi Nyima The January 28th 1989, in its monastery of Tashilhunpo, in Shigatse with the Tibet, 10th Panchen LAMA, Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen, dies of an heart attack, at the 50 years age. The Tibetans say that it was poisoned a few days after its historical speech criticizing the Chinese policy and affirming its honesty towards the Dalaï Lama. Panchen LAMA had in particular declared that the progress brought to Tibet by China could not compensate for the sum of destruction and suffering inflicted to the people Tibetan. After its disappearance, the Chinese Communist party charged Chadrel Rinpoché, the person in charge of the monastery of the Tashilhunpo, believer that it was favorable for them, to find the reincarnation of Panchen LAMA. The Dalaï Lama proposes in Beijing to dispatch a delegation of high religious dignities for " assister" Chadrel Rinpoché . But the offer is rejected by China, which qualifies it the “superfluous one”. The Dalaï Lama and the authorities Tibetans start to organize research to find its reincarnation according to the traditions Tibetans. In Tibet, Chadrel Rinpoché retains three children with remarkable qualities. Among them, small the Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, wire of nomads Tibetans. Chadrel Rinpoché informs a team sent clandestinely to Tibet by the Dalaï Lama. Gendhun recognizes without hesitating the goods of the late LAMA. He had declared besides with his parents “I am Panchen LAMA. My monastery is the Tashilhunpo.” The May 14th 1995, after having studied the various candidates, young boy a six year old was officially recognized by the Dalaï Lama as being eleventh Panchen LAMA. It is named Gendhun Choekyi Nyima. Wire of Kunchok Phuntsok and Dechen Choedon, it was born the April 25th 1989 in the town of Nagchu.

Three days later, the May 17th 1995, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima and its close relations were reported missing and certain rumors let believe that they would have been kidnapped and carried with Beijing. Chadrel Rinpoché, him, immediately is arrested and imprisoned to have informed the Dalaï Lama. One year later, Beijing acknowledged to hold Panchen LAMA, which makes the youngest political prisoner of it in the world. In 1996, its case was examined by the Committee of the Rights of the Child of UNO and the Chinese authorities had admitted for the first time to have " taken the child for his sécurité" when the question of Panchen LAMA was tackled. The Committee asked to return visit in Gendhun, but the Chinese authorities did not invite it. The file does not have since then advanced. Today, it would be always held by the Chinese authorities. However, for the Tibetans and the Buddhists of the school Tibetan, it is eleventh Panchen LAMA, one of the dignitaries of Buddhism Tibetan. A world alarm “Amber” besides was launched by the monastery Tashilhunpo (seat in exile in India of Panchen LAMA) and a reward is offered to any person providing information making it possible to come into contact with the panchen LAMA.

According to the government of the Popular republic of China, Panchen LAMA must be indicated by a drawing lot carried out in a gold ballot box before being recognized by the central government. However, the 10 {{E}} Panchen LAMA itself had made a declaration which was quoted in a Chinese official publication “According to the history Tibetan, the confirmation of Dalaï (LAMA) or of Panchen LAMA must be mutually recognized”.

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