Word: panchen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Dalai Lama, who is supposed to exercise temporal power (TIME, May 14), will stay on in Lhasa as his people's nominal ruler. But his rival, the Communist-backed, 13-year-old Panchen Lama, will be allowed to return from exile as spiritual ruler...
...looked as though the Reds had chosen Buddha in his Panchen reincarnation to be their puppet boss in Tibet...
Doctrinally, Tibet should be ruled by two lamas: the Panchen Lama, whom esoteric Tibetans believe to be Buddha's spiritual reincarnation, and the Dalai Lama, Buddha's temporal reincarnation. Actually, the Dalai Lama and his priests have been running Tibet since 1924, when they expelled the Panchen Lama...
Last week the Panchen Lama & Co. were trying to make a comeback, with spiritual support and a little temporal help from the Chinese Communists...
...Panchen Lama, who came to Peking in person from Tsinghai Province, was met enthusiastically at the station by 90 high Red officials, including Premier Chou, three Vice Presidents, 500 civil bigwigs, Peking's Tibetan colony, and a brass band. That night, after a banquet, Chou declared benignly that Mao Tse-tung had "long ago decided to liberate Tibet and help the Tibetan people return to the big family of China." Replied the 14-year-old Panchen Lama: "We firmly support the policy of Chairman...