Story of the lost boy

In the 17th century, it was declared that the current Panchen Lama, would be reincarnated in a child. Following the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, a search was undertaken to discover his reincarnation.

A quarter-century prior, a six-year-old kid was perceived as the resurrection of the Panchen Lama, the second-most elevated positioning figure in Tibetan Buddhism. He expeditiously vanished. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is perceived by the Dalai Lama as the rebirth of the Panchen Lama, one of the most noteworthy positioning profound pioneers in Tibet, yet this decision was dismissed by the Chinese government, which arrested the kid. The Chinese government named Gyancain Norbu the eleventh Panchen Lama in late 1995. 

A half-year after Gedhun's snatching, China reported that it had chosen a Tibetan kid called Gyaltsen Norbu to turn into the Panchen Lama. Since his determination, Gyaltsen, who lives in Beijing, has just infrequently visited Tibet. His visits are cautiously stage-oversaw and intensely policed Tibetans actually allude to him as the 'Panchen Zuma', or 'bogus Panchen'. 

In May 1996, China conceded that Gedhun and his family were being held at a mystery area and China's envoy to the UN asserted that, "(Gedhun) has been put under the security of the public authority in line with his parents." He didn't state where Gedhun was being held. 

In February 1998, American priests visiting Tibet were informed that Gedhun was in Beijing, yet in March 1998, the bad habit legislative head of Tibetan Autonomous Region Yang Chuantang revealed to Austrian delegates that he was really living in Lhari - the spot of his introduction to the world. In April 1998, a third area was advanced when a British columnist was informed that Gedhun was examining, perhaps in Gansu Province. 

The Chinese government still refuses to reveal Gedhun's whereabouts or respond to requests from the United Nations and Western governments to check on his wellbeing.

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