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Word: gyaincain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Each marker was inscribed with the name of a Tibetan boy identified, during a six-year search, as a possible incarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989. The urn was turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu, 6, who was quickly ushered into the room in golden robes and a yellow silk hat. Norbu was hailed by the monks and by a man dressed incongruously in a Western-style suit: Luo Gan, a senior Chinese official dispatched to oversee the ceremony. Luo later bent forward, shook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEMPEST IN A GOLDEN URN | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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