Word: panchen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Factional fighting still flares frequently in the provinces. In Shansi, troops have had to be called in from elsewhere to still rioting. In Tibet, small guerrilla clashes are said to be frequent, and there are reports that the Panchen Lama, once considered a willing tool of Peking, has escaped from prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu...
...terror by suicide that the Chinese have strung barbed-wire barricades along the banks of the Kyichu (River of Happiness) to keep people from throwing themselves in. At least 80,000 Tibetans, including the god-king Dalai Lama, have chosen exile. Another 200,000, including his deputy, the Panchen Lama, have been imprisoned or enslaved in forced-labor brigades...
...have bravely tried to resist their destruction. Fierce mountain tribesmen staged bloody rebellions, and Tibetans forcibly recruited into the army have on occasion turned their weapons against the Chinese. Peking's puppet "Tibet Autonomous Region" collapsed because Tibetan "collaborators," including Mao's own Peking-groomed leader, the Panchen Lama, refused to cooperate with their Chinese overlords any longer. The Chinese had to establish a military dictatorship, and last fall Peking formally abandoned all pretense of Tibetan self-rule...
When the Chinese Communists seized Tibet in 1959 and drove its Buddhist god-King, the Dalai Lama, into exile, Peking found what it thought was a ready puppet in the kingdom's No. 2 Buddhist, the Panchen Lama. The Panchen seemed a perfect choice, since he was born and raised in China and had long coveted his master's post. Mao Tse-tung beamed benevolently as the young successor was given his official title, Acting Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The Reds even made him a Deputy in Peking's parliament...
...Panchen's popularity was doomed to fade. Last month the Communists' military commander in Tibet began lashing out at unnamed "schemers" who were "plotting the restoration of integration of politics and religion." Sure enough, he was talking about the Panchen Lama, on whom so many Communist hopes had been pinned. Last week the Panchen was not only out of his job in the Red Chinese parliament, but had been stripped of his Tibetan chairmanship as well and forced to confess "antipeople, anti-state and anti-socialist activities." To Asian Buddhists, many of whom nurture the illusion that they...