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...more Jiang is refusing to play nice guy with anyone, either domestically or internationally. In his speeches he talks about the vital need for stability, which in China is a euphemism for rigid political control. Last month his government pushed ahead with its own selection of a new Panchen Lama for Tibet, the second highest religious leader in that oppressed province. Relations with Taiwan froze last summer after Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui visited the U.S.; China responded by conducting provocative military exercises near Taiwan. China last month again threatened to use force should Taiwan opt for independence. Last week...
...WEAK LIGHT OF DAWN ONE morning last week, hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered at the Jokhang temple in Lhasa to select a new Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet. Traditional yak-butter lamps glowed as three ivory markers were placed inside a golden urn. 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...
...became a central figure in what promises to be a long and bitter war between Tibet and a communist government determined to retain control of the troublesome province, right up to choosing its top religious leaders. For six years, China had insisted on its authority to select the Panchen Lama. But in May, following ancient Tibetan custom and practices, the Dalai Lama announced that he had chosen six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the new Panchen Lama. Officials in Beijing were enraged, and soon thereafter, Nyima disappeared from his home village along with his parents, prompting accusations...
...selecting its own Panchen Lama, China seeks not only to reassert its power over Tibet but also to control the education of the boy, who will one day lead the search for the new Dalai Lama, Tibet's God-King, when the current one passes on. From exile in India, the Dalai Lama reaffirmed his choice and insisted, "My recognition of the Panchen Lama's reincarnation cannot be changed." He may have been recalling the words of his own predecessor, who before his death in 1933 gave this warning: "Unless we guard our own country, it will now happen that...
Chinese officials are denying reports that they have imprisoned Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 6-year-old boy selected by the Dalai Lama as the new Panchen Lama, the second-highest religious leader in Tibet. In an effort to lend legitimacy to its 45-year rule of Tibet, China has unearthed an obscure 1792 agreement they say gives the government, rather than the Dalai Lama, the right to choose the Panchen Lama. Wednesday, the government chose Gynincain Norbu, born six years ago when the 10th Panchen Lama died, as the "legitimate" 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama. With the Dalai Lama...