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NYT: China Asserts Role in Choosing Dalai Lama (2 posts)

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  • Avatar Image Friday said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    From the New York Times, July 1, 2010:

    The Tibetan government-in-exile in India says the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama is a fraud. It says the real one, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was endorsed by the Dalai Lama, was abducted with his family in 1995 by the Chinese government and has not been seen since. He was 6 at the time and is called “the world’s youngest political prisoner” by Tibet advocacy groups.

    See full article by Edward Wong at:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/world/asia/02dalai.html?ref=buddhism

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  • Avatar Image Al Jigen Billings1p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Yes, this has been an ongoing issue. There are controversies (without involving the Chinese) in the succession of other lamas as well. The identity of the Karamapa, for example, has been in dispute with some though that seems to be getting decided by the populace at this point.

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