2023-04-25 01:53:21
The second most important figure in Buddhism turns 34 today, but he was captured with his entire family when he was six and no one has seen him since.
the tenth Panchen Lama, the second most important figure of Buddhism, died in 1989 at the age of 50. many tibetans they think he died poisoned by the Chinese, due to his speech against the Chinese presence in his country.
When he died, his spiritual brother, the Dalai Lama, He recognized in a Tibetan child the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the eleventh of the saga. It was already 1995. It was called Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. Three days after being recognized, that child and his entire family disappeared. Until today.
Taking advantage of his birthday, the inter-parliamentary group for Tibet in the Senate, recently created by some thirty senators, “calls on the Chinese government to immediately provide proof of life and a justification for the whereabouts of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his well-being.”
The Chinese Army kidnapped them in May 1995 and nothing has been heard from them again, despite the fact that every year various organizations insist that they be shown to be still alive. The Panchen Lama thus became “the youngest political prisoner in the world”, as denounced from the House of Tibet in Barcelona. Meanwhile, the disappearance of the little lama was recorded in the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances of the United Nations.
Shortly after the kidnapping, China introduced another child as “the real Panchen Lama”, although for most Tibetans it is actually the “false Panchen Lama”. The Senate group also adds that it “condemns in the strongest possible terms the Chinese government’s interference in the selection and recognition of reincarnation” made in its day by the Dalai Lama.
This Tuesday the exiled Tibetans celebrate the birthday of that child Kidnapped complies (or will comply, because it is not known if he lives or not) 34 years.
The senators explain that “Tbet continues to be the third least free country in the world, tying with Syria y South Sudan. Tibet has been under the tight control of China for more than six decades. The type of repressive regime is best exemplified by the case of the Panchen Lama.”
For this reason, they continue, “we call on the Chinese authorities to allow them to fully exercise their fundamental freedoms, as established in the international commitments of the Chinese Communist Party. And we call on the prompt liberation of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his father, immediately and unconditionally, along with all Tibetan political prisoners.”
The inter-parliamentary group for Tibet in the Senate was created last February at the initiative of Senator Robert Still (ERC) and this is one of its first activities. All parliamentary groups participate in it with the exception of PP y PSOE. Last week, the group appointed its coordinating board and elected Laura Castelfort (ERC) as chair.
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