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As China continues to disappear Tibet’s 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, whom it abducted with his family 31 years ago at six years of age with absolute impunity to this day, Ashu Maan* makes the point that you can take away the Tibetan people’s religious leader, ban his photograph, forbid his name, but the belief that animated his recognition, the tradition that made him meaningful, the love that Tibetans carry for their spiritual heritage, none of that fits in a detention facility.
On a spring morning in May 1995, a six-year-old boy named Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was taken from his home by Chinese government agents along with his parents. He was never seen again.
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