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Press Statement on the 21st Birthday of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima” the XIth Panchen Lama of Tibet
- Ang
- 25 kwietnia 2010
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25 April 2010: Today marks the 21st birthday of the XIth Panchen Lama: Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, one of Tibet’s most important religious leaders, who was abducted by the Chinese authorities on 17 May 1995 when he was just six years old. He and his parents were not seen for the past 15 years and there has been no clear information on their exact whereabouts and well being. Over the years the Panchen Lama’s plight has come to symbolize the crisis facing the survival of Tibet’s religious culture.
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Czech Events To Mark Kidnapping May 17th
- Ang
- 7 maja 2007
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2 events will mark the Panchen Lama's kidnapping on May 17th 1995 in the
Czech Republic. See below links for details.
http://lungta.cz/panchenlama (Prague)
http://www.protibet.org/view.php?cisloclanku=2007040006 (Ostrava)
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TYC's statement on the XVIIIth Birth Anniversary of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the XIth Panchen Lama of Tibet
- Ang
- 25 kwietnia 2007
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Today, 25th April 2007, marks the 18th Birth Anniversary of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on May 14 1995. On May 17 1995, just days after he was recognized as a true reincarnation of Xth Panchen Lama, Chinese authorities abducted him and his family and till date his whereabouts and well beings are not known to the world. Unfortunately, today He was the world’s youngest political prisoner of conscience.
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Panchen Lama marks coming of age in Chinese custody: China's strategies of religious control in Tibet revealed in new report
- Ang
- 24 kwietnia 2007
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Using information from official documents obtained from Tibet and interviews with reincarnate lamas, monks and nuns from Tibet, the report documents the following:
* Disturbing precedents on religious practice in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
* A stepping up of the patriotic education campaign in religious institutions.
* A commitment by the government of the People's Republic of China to strengthen the powers of the Chinese Communist Party's Democratic Management Committees in religious institutions.
* A renewed determination by Chinese authorities to crack down on the influence of the Dalai Lama in Tibet.
* The severe undermining of traditional systems of monastic education.
* Appropriation by the atheistic Chinese state of authorities necessary for the transmission of teachings and the identification of reincarnate lamas.