Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama
Lobsang Trinley Lhndrub Chkyi Gyaltsen was the tenth Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism. He was often referred to simply as Choekyi Gyaltsen , although this is also the name of several other notable figures in Tibetan history.
The 10th Panchen Lama was born Gonpo Tseten onFebruary 1938 in todays Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai, to Gonpo Tseten and Sonam Drolma. When the Ninth Panchen Lama died in 1937, two simultaneous searches for the tenth Panchen Lama produced two competing candidates, with the government in Lhasa and the Ninth Panchen Lamas officials in conflict. The Republic of China government, then embroiled in the Chinese Civil War, declared its support for Tseten onJune 1949. Guan Jiyu, the head of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, joined Kuomintang Governor of Qinghai Ma Bufang in presiding over Tsetens enthronement onJune as Choekyi Gyaltsen at Kumbum Monastery. The Dalai Lamas government in Lhasa still refused to recognize Gyaltsen.
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