Tibetan exile government urges China to reveal whereabouts of Panchen Lama

New Delhi (AFP) - Tibet's parliament-in-exile on Sunday called for Beijing to confirm the "well-being and whereabouts" of the Panchen Lama, the second-most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism's largest school, a quarter of a century after he disappeared.The whereabouts of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima -- the boy recognised as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama on May 14, 1995 -- have not been known since he was taken into custody three days later by Chinese authorities aged six."China must provide verifiable information on the wellbeing and whereabouts of the 11th Panchen Lama," t...

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