What is "panchen"

Usage examples of "panchen".

Even the Panchen Lama, initially wooed by the Chinese, was relieved of his office in 1964 and placed under house arrest in Peking as a traitor.

The Chinese experiment in bringing the Panchen Lama to Lhasa revealed the reaction of the Tibetan people.

Although the Panchen Lama has nothing like the charisma of the Dalai Lama, he nevertheless triggered off powerful emotions.

This was acknowledged also by the Panchen Lama when he emphatically declared that he would exercise his office only under the superior authority of the Dalai Lama, whose wisdom and ascetic life plainly predestined him for that high function.

Tenzing Norgay, the famous Sherpa, told me quite recently that he was not interested in the Panchen Lama or in any other incarnationit was only the Dalai Lama whom he truly revered and before whom he prostrated himself.

Just think of what happened to the Panchen Lama, with his nineteen years of house arrest.

I remembered an incident from the old times: on my last stay thereI was already fleeing from the Chinesea monk had quietly crept into my room at night and told me that he had over 100 ancient bronzes for sale which had belonged to the Panchen Lama.

The gate to the new palace of the Panchen Lama stood wide open but entry was prohibited.

I was also told that on the day the Panchen Lama returned and took up residence at the Tsuglagkhang these guards had fled in panic.

The Dalai Lama himself, in all his conversations with me, had invariably expressed his sympathy for the Panchen Lama, revealing that he knew the truth of the matter.

Even though the Panchen Lama occupies a higher position in the Tibetan hierarchy than the Dalai Lama, the Chinese never had a hope of playing the one off against the other.

In the Tsuglagkhang the Panchen Lama made an offering of rice on three tiers of silver trays as his gift to the shrine.

The abbess of bSam-lding monastery and convent was claimed regularly to incarnate the goddess Vajravarahi and the Panchen Lama of Tashilhunpo was the Tathagata or Dhyani Buddha Amitabha.

There were other large monasteries, such as the seat of the Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo, whose estimated population at the end of the last century was about 4,000 monks.

There were also richly decorated silver and gold stupas containing the body of Dalai Lamas in the Potala at Lhasa and of the Panchen Lamas at Tashilhunpo.