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- Chinese-Appointed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu met President Xi Jinping in Beijing on June 6, 2025, and pledged loyalty to the Communist Party.
- China appointed Norbu as the Panchen Lama at age five in 1995 after detaining Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Dalai Lama's recognized reincarnation, who disappeared shortly after.
- During the meeting, Xi urged Norbu to promote ethnic unity, religious harmony, Tibetan development, and to continue the sinicisation of religion under party leadership.
- Norbu, now 35 and seen as a political figure, vowed to support CPC leadership, strengthen Chinese national unity, and advance the sinicisation of Tibetan Buddhism.
- The event highlights China's strategy to control Tibetan Buddhism and influence succession processes amid challenges posed by the exiled Dalai Lama’s leadership.
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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.
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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