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China-Appointed Panchen Lama Vows to Make Religion More Chinese in Meeting with Xi Jinping | News Channel 3-12
- On June 6, 2025, the China-appointed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu met President Xi Jinping in Beijing and pledged loyalty to the Communist Party.
- The meeting followed China’s long campaign since 1995 to promote the sinicisation of Tibetan Buddhism and replace the Dalai Lama’s chosen 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who disappeared in 1995.
- Xi urged the Panchen Lama to contribute more to ethnic unity, religious harmony, stability, development, and to advance the sinicisation of religion under party leadership.
- The 35-year-old Panchen Lama vowed to support party leadership, promote modernisation of Tibet, and keep Xi’s teachings firmly in mind, stating he will "firmly support the leadership".
- This event reinforces China’s strategy to control Tibetan Buddhism and prepare for the Dalai Lama’s succession, while the exiled Dalai Lama plans to announce details about his successor in July 2025.
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China-appointed Panchen Lama vows to make Tibetan Buddhism more Chinese in meeting with Xi Jinping
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese. Gyaltsen Norbu was installed by Beijing as the 11th Panchen Lama in 1995 in defiance of the religion’s highest authority the Dalai Lama, whose pick for the role — a six-year-old boy — has since vanished from public view. China has yet to reveal any information on th…
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China's Panchen Lama pledges loyalty to the Communist Party in a meeting with Xi
State media in China says that the man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged adherence to the ruling Communist Party during a rare face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
China-appointed Panchen Lama vows to make religion more Chinese in meeting with Xi Jinping
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese.
Beijing-Appointed Panchen Lama pledges to “sinicise” Tibetan buddhism to Xi Jinping
Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, June 7: The Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, widelt known as “fake Panchen” pledged to support the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign to “sinicise” Tibetan Buddhism during a face-to-face closed door meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday. Norbu, appointed by Beijing as the 11th Panchen Lama in 1995 after the Dalai Lama’s recognized Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was kidnapped a…
China-appointed 11th Panchen Lama meets Xi Jinping in Zhongnanhai - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Jun06’25) – The Chinese-government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama, Gyaincain Norbu, has on Jun 6 called on President Xi Jinping to receive a lecture on playing greater role in winning Tibetan loyalty to the Communist Party of China-state. The report on the meeting came as China stepped up its propaganda campaign to appoint its own “reincarnation” […]
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