The previous Panchen Lama (Lobsang Trinley Lhundrup Choekyi Gyaltsen) spoke out against Chinese rule many times and wrote a report chronicling Tibet’s famines in the 1960s. Photo: The tenth Panchen Lama’s visit to Amdo in 1980. As a result, he spent more than eight years in jail and died in suspicious circumstances in 1989. Photo: The tenth Panchen Lama and Deng Xiaoping

The Tenth Panchen Lama passed away during the night of January 27, 1989 4/5