H.H. the 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu is being recognized more and more by the global Buddhist community. On 20 July 2015, a group of Mongolian Buddhists led by the head of the Mongolian Buddhist Association paid an official visit to the Panchen Lama in Beijing, the capital of China.
This visit signifies that Mongolia, the nation that has historically been responsible for the empowerment of the highest Tibetan Lamas, including the line of the Dalai Lamas, acknowledges Baingen Erdini Qoigyijabu as the 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lamas, who is regarded as the second highest ranking Gelugpa lama and an emanation of Amitabha Buddha.
The 11th Panchen Lama has made it one of his objectives to promote national unity within China. This would translate into better prospects for Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Since 1959, the relationship between the Tibetans and the Chinese government has been chilly at times, due to what the Chinese regard as ‘separatist activities’ of the Dalai Lama that find expression in the Tibetan people’s revolt against the government. The 11th Panchen Lama’s role is therefore crucial in building trust between the Tibetans and the Chinese, and it is the hope of many that this Panchen Lama will follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, His Holiness the 10th Panchen Lama, who remained in Tibet when the Dalai Lama escaped in 1959, to hold the Tibetan people together and to lead them during a very difficult period in the country’s history.
As China and Mongolia have historically worked together to facilitate the growth of the Dharma, may this meeting lead to many more future collaborations to further the spread of Je Tsongkapa’s teachings.
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Panchen Lama Qoigyijabu Part 1
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Panchen Lama Qoigyijabu’s 20th Enthronement Anniversary
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July 31, 2015
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Samantha Rays
August 1, 2015
It is heartwarming to see the Mongolian High Lamas pay respect to the 11th Panchen Lama in Beijing. This act of humility, respect and wisdom will create positive energy and create causes for the Dharma to grow wider and further to benefit many.
The controversy surrounding the 11th Panchen Lama is difficult for us ordinary practitioners to understand as we are not Enlightened and hence lack the wisdom and compassion. The ultimate aim if for the Dharma to grow and benefit more.
Eli Buchen
August 29, 2015
I do hope The 11th Panchen Lama can bring the dharma, Dorje Shudgen and Je Tsongkhapa’s tradition to many and teach the many Chinese and people around the world.
Good to see the Mongolian lamas visiting the Panchen Lama and taking part in the Buddhist community.
Ashok Rao
May 17, 2016
There as those who would suggested that His Holiness 11th Panchen Lama is not the rightful one. The CTA would have you believe that their candidate for the Panchen Lama is the correct one, and the current is simply a pawn in the hands of the Chinese government. In my opinion, given the fact that the CTA are themselves so corrupt and need to maintain their image of being a victim of Chinese rule, to ensure continued international support….and funding…to misuse out of greed, they had to select their own candidate.
It is strange that many lamas from all over the world, including His Eminence Gangchen Rinpoche who is himself a Tibetan. have recognised the 11th Panchen Lama as the unmistaken reincarnation of the holy 10th Panchen Lama. The fact that he remains in China, fostering unity and harmony between the Chinese and the Tibetans is not surprising to say the least. The holy 10th Panchen lama remained in Tibet after the 1959 Cultural Revolution in Tibet, so it would be fitting for the 11th Panchen Lama to do the same. He is simply carrying on his work from his previous life, in looking after the Tibetan people, but more importantly in preserving the holy Dharma so that it can benefit many countless sentient beings now and in the future.
Lhakpa Dhendup
August 11, 2018
What will the all the people around the world and in Tibet do now? Dalai Lama says he is happy that Tibet is a part of China and should remain a part of China. So many Tibetans self-immolated for Tibet to be independent and now Dalai Lama did a 360 degree turn and says he wants to go back to Tibet and China and Tibet should be a part of China. So unbelievable. So many are angry and disappointed.
Dalai Lama should set things right
August 12, 2018
Dear Dalai Lama,
Since you started the cruel ban against the 350 year Dorje Shugden practice, how has it benefit your Tibetan society and Buddhism in the world? Things have become worse and most educated Tibetans can see this. They don’t speak out not because they don’t see your ban as wrong, but you instill fear in them and not respect. It is like fear of a dictator. I am sorry to say so. Everyone is divided. There is no harmony. Before your ban there was more harmony and unity.
By enacting the ban, you split the monasteries, split so many families, split regions in Tibet apart, split your disciples from you, split your own gurus from you, split Tibetan Buddhism apart. You have created so much disharmony.
It is not democratic what you have done to ban a religion within your community. You always talk of tolerance and acceptance and democracy and yet you do not accept and tolerate something different from your beliefs. When people practice Dorje Shugden you ostracize them, ban them from seeing you, ban them from using Tibetan facilities. You know you have done that. There are videos that capture your speech and prove this point. You even had people expelled from monasteries just because they practice Dorje Shugden. Some of the monks you expelled have been in the monastery for over 40 years. Many older monks shed tears because of this.
Many young educated Tibetans lost confidence in you as they saw the damage the Dorje Shugden ban created and they lose hope. Many have become free thinkers. They reject what you have done. So many people in the west left Buddhism because of the confusion you created with this ban against Dorje Shugden which is immoral.
You could of had millions of people who practice Dorje Shugden to support, love and follow you, but you scared them away. They are hurt and very disappointed. They loved you and respected you deeply before the ban. It has been 60 years and you have failed to get Tibet back. Your biggest failure is not getting Tibet back after 57 years in exile. Now you are begging China to allow you to return to Tibet to the disappointment of thousands of people who fought for a free Tibet believing in you. So many self-immolated for a free Tibet and now you want Tibet to be a part of China with no referendum from Tibetans. Just like a dictator, you decide on your own. It was your government and you that lost Tibet in the first place. Your policies and style of doing things do not benefit Tibet and Buddhism. You have been the sole ruler of Tibet your whole life and you still have not gotten our country of Tibet back for us. Our families and us are separated. Yet you create more pain by creating a ban to further divide people. Please have compassion.
No other Buddhist leader has banned or condemned any religion except for you. It looks very bad. You are a Nobel laureate and this is not fitting of a laureate. You should unite people and not separate them by religious differences.
You said Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi did not do right to the Rohingya people in Myanmar due to religious differences, but you are doing the same thing to the Shugden Buddhists within your own society. There is a parallel in this. You separate the Shugden Buddhists from the others in Tibetan society.
You have lost so many people who would have loved and supported you. You have lost so much support around the world. The Shugden Buddhists who love you number in the millions. When you are fast losing support from governments and private people, it will not do you well to lose more.
After you are passed away in the future, the rift you created between the Dorje Shugden and non-Dorje Shugden people will remain for a while and that will be your legacy. Disharmony. You will be remembered for this. Not as a hero but a disharmony creator.
Dorje Shugden will spread and further grow, but you will be no more as you are a human. No one wishes you bad and in fact we hope you have a long and healthy life, but we have lost so much hope and have so much despair because of you. All the hundreds of Dorje Shugden lamas, tulkus and geshes are maturing and there are hundreds of Dorje Shugden monasteries in Tibet who will not give up Dorje Shugden. You have made a mistake. These hundreds of teachers and teachers to be will spread Dorje Shugden further in the future.
The gurus that gave us Dorje Shugden as a spiritual practice and you have called these holy gurus wrong and they are mistaken in giving us Dorje Shugden. How can you insult our gurus whom we respect so much? If they can be wrong, then you can be wrong. Then all gurus can be wrong. So no one needs to listen to any guru? You have created this trend. It is not healthy. Your own gurus practiced Dorje Shugden their whole lives. Your own gurus were exemplary and highly learned.
Dalai Lama you have created so much pain with this ban against so many people due to religion. You are ageing fast. Are you going to do anything about it or stay stubborn, hard and un-moving. You show a smile and preach peace and harmony wherever you go. But will you do the same to your own people? Please rectify the wrong you have done. Please before it is too late. You can create harmony again or you can pass away in the future with this legacy of peace. May you live long and think carefully and admit what was a mistake in having this unethical ban against Dorje Shugden religion.