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The 10th Panchen Lama was born as Gonpo Tseten on 19 February 1938, in Bido, today's Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai, known as Amdo. His father was also called Gonpo Tseten and his mother was Sonam Drolma.
- Thubten Choekyi Nyima
- 10th Panchen Lama
- 3 June 1949-28 January 1989
Amdo encompasses a large area from the Machu (Yellow River) to the Drichu (Yangtze). It is mostly coterminous with China's present-day Qinghai province, but also includes small portions of Sichuan and Gansu provinces.
- Recognition
- Early Life
- Petition and Arrest
- Later Life
- Return to Tibet
The Paṇchen Lama incarnation line began in the seventeenth century after the 5th Dalai Lama gave Chokyi Gyeltsen the title, and declared him to be an emanation of Buddha Amitaba. Officially, he became the first Panchen Lama in the lineage, while he had also been the sixteenth abbot of Tashilhunpo Monastery. The 10th Panchen Lama was born as Gonpo T...
The Panchen Lama reportedly supported China's claim of sovereignty over Tibet, and supported China's reform policies for Tibet. Radio Beijing broadcast the religious leader's call for Tibet to be "liberated" into Tibet, which created pressure on the Lhasa government to negotiate with the People's Republic. At Kumbum Monastery, the Panchen Lama gave...
70,000 Character Petition
After a tour through Tibet in 1962, the Panchen Lama wrote a document addressed to Prime Minister Zhou Enlai denouncing the abusive policies and actions of the People's Republic of China in Tibet. This became known as the 70,000 Character Petition. According to Isabel Hilton, it remains the "most detailed and informed attack on China's policies in Tibet that would ever be written." The Panchen Lama met with Zhou Enlai to discuss the petition he had written. The initial reaction was positive,...
Arrest
In 1964, he was publicly humiliated at Politburo meetings, dismissed from all posts of authority, declared 'an enemy of the Tibetan people', had his dream journal confiscated and used against him, and was then imprisoned. He was 26 years old at the time. The Panchen's situation worsened when the Cultural Revolution began. The Chinese dissident and former Red Guard Wei Jingsheng published in March 1979 a letter under his name but written by another anonymous author denouncing the conditions at...
In 1978, after giving up his vows of an ordained monk, he travelled around China, looking for a wife to start a family. He began courting Li Jie, daughter of Dong Qiwu, a general in PLA who had commanded an Army in the Korean War. She was a medical student at Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an. At the time, the Lama had no money and was st...
The Panchen Lama made several journeys to Tibet from Beijing, during 1980 and afterwards. While touring eastern Tibet in 1980, the Panchen Lama also visited the famous Nyingmaschool master Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok at Larung Gar. In 1987, the Panchen Lama met Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok again in Beijing, bestowed the teaching of the Thirty-Seven Practice...
Amdo County (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་; Chinese: 安多县) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410.85 square kilometres and is dominated by mainly by Tibetan grassland .
If you are one of the first-timers to China, without applying for the Tibet Permit, you can travel the Amdo Tibetan Regions in Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu with charming attractions to see.
Some of the popular destinations within the Amdo region include the Kumbum Monastery in Xining, the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, and the Tongren County, known for its Thangka paintings. Visitors can also explore the stunning Qinghai Lake, the largest saltwater lake in China, or hike the majestic mountains of the Qilian Range.
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A-mdo, one of three historical regions of Central Asia (the other two being Dbus-Gtsang and Khams) into which Tibet was once divided. Between the 7th and 9th centuries ce, the Tibetan kingdom was extended until it reached the Tarim Basin to the north, China to the east, India and Nepal to the south, and the Kashmir region to the west.
