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Panchen Lama The Panchen Lama () is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Panchen Lama is one of the most important figures in the Gelug tradition, with its spiritual authority second only to Dalai Lama. Along with the council of high lamas, ...

s of

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. There are currently 10 recognised incarnations of the Panchen Lama; the 11th Panchen Lama is

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however.

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11th Panchen Lama schism

After the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, his succession came to be disputed between the exiled

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

and the

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of the

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. This resulted in a schism between two competing candidates are claimed to be the 11th Panchen Lama.

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11th Panchen Lama schism

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