(en) Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, Vol. 2: The Calm Before the Storm: 1951-1955, University of California Press, 2007 (ISBN0520249410 et 978-0520249417), 639 p., p. 274-275 : « The Panchen Lama’s telegrams to Mao, Zhu De, and Peng Dehuai reveal the extent to which Che Jigme and the others had decided to link their fate with the CCP, including their goal of liberating Tibet. The telegram to Mao said, Chairman Mao of Central People’s Government and Commander-in-Chief Chu [Zhu] of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Peking: With superior wisdom and courage Your Excellencies have completed the grand salvation of the country and the people. The success of your army has brought joy to the whole country. For generations in the past I have received kindness and favor from the country. During the past twenty years and more, I have ceaselessly struggled for the territorial and sovereign integrity of Tibet [in China]. It is to be deeply regretted that I have had no success. I am now lingering in Chinghai [Qinghai] waiting for an order to return to Tibet. Fortunately, under the leadership of Your Excellencies, the Northwest has now been liberated and the Central People’s Government has been established. All those who are conscientious applaud with one accord. From now on, the realization of the democratic happiness of the people and revival of the country are only questions of time and it will not be long before Tibet is liberated. I sincerely present to Your Excellencies on behalf of all the people in Tibet [our] respects and our heartfelt support. Panchen ‘O-erh-te-ni’ [Erdini] / 1st October 1949. »
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(en) Sitting-inthe-bed with the 11th Panchen Erdeni, IV - 10th Panchen died in Tashilumpo Monastery, http://www.chinaview.cn, 9 avril 2009 : « On Jan. 27, the 10th Panchen held a banquet in his residence for representatives of cadres and the mass of Xigaze. He was very happy at the banquet and even danced with the guests. He did not go to bed till the midnight. At four o' clock the next morning, the 10th Panchen woke up from chest distress, with an ache in his back and arms. He went back to sleep after a checkup and at 8:25 am, the 10th Panchen suffered a seizure and lost consciousness. The condition of the 10th Panchen was reported to the Central Government immediately. Despite the emergency treatment from a special medical team sent by the Central Government, the 10th Panchen died at 20: 16. »
(en) Samten Karmay Historical fatcs, in Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China’s 100 Questions (sous la direction de A. M. Blondeau, K. Buffetrille, Wei Jing), préface de Donald Lopez, University of California Press, Berkeley (ISBN0-520-24928-3). Édition revue et mise à jour de la version française Le Tibet est-il chinois ?, p. 58.
(en) Melvyn Goldstein, p. 105 : « They also accepted the return of the Panchen Lama to Tibet (points 5 and 6) » ; pp. 101-102 : « Point 5. The established status, functions and powers of the Panchen Erdini shall be maintained. Point 6. By the established status, functions, and powers of the Dalai Lama and of the Panchen Erdini are meant the status, functions and powers of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and of the Ninth Panchen Erdini when they were in friendly and amicable relations with each other. »
(en) Israel Epstein, My China Eye: memoirs of a Jew and a journalist, Long River Press, 2005, 358 p., pp. 274-275 : « on October 1, 1955, at a celebration of the 6th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic (…)A giant portrait of Mao Zedong was flanked by those of the Dalai and Panchen La- mas, both then pledged to the 1951 Agreement. I had met them both, slim and young, a year before, at a reception in Beijing where they were attending China's newly-inaugurated National People's Congress. There I asked them to autograph my invitation, unknowingly extending it first to the Panchen Lama. "I am the Dalai Lama", said the Dalai Lama, snatching it to sign first. No mistaking his assertion of precedence even in so informal a matter. Modest he wasn't. And, though still young, he was by no means simple. On the reviewing stand at the Lhasa ceremony in 1955 were China's central government cadres in plain blue cloth uniforms, and members of the Kashag ».
(en) Miscellaneous, Progress of Tibet, in The Hindu, 28 octobre 1954 : « The Dalai Lama admitted that relations between him and the Panchen Lama some time ago were "not very cooperative". But now "we are good friends and cooperate with each other like brothers." »
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(en) The Tibetan People's Princess, China Rights Forum, no 4, 2006 : « my dad had been raised since the age of three as a Living Buddha at Ta’er Temple, 7 Qinghai Province (Note 7: Known by Tibetans as the Gumbum Lamasery). »
(en) The Tibetan People's Princess, China Rights Forum, no 4, 2006 : « “Premiere Zhou intended to protect my dad. He allowed him to leave Lhasa for Beijing and then arranged for our whole family to move into the former home of the democratic hero Shen Junru, who had died not long before. Except for attending reeducation classes held by the Nationality Committee and being sent to Reform-Through-Labor at a low-voltage apparatus factory, my dad got off pretty lightly compared with the sufferings of many other officials disciplined at the time. But he didn’t know that his miseries hadn’t really started yet ».
(en) The Tibetan People's Princess, China Rights Forum, no 4, 2006 : « In 1966 when the Cultural Revolution first started, my dad was abducted by a rebel faction at the Central Institute of Nationalities. They bound him so tightly with steel wire that it became embedded in his shoulders. »
(en) The Tibetan People's Princess, China Rights Forum, No 4, 2006 : « In 1968, my dad was detained again, but this time he was completely secluded and imprisoned. (…) At the time he was jailed, he was only 28 (…). “My dad’s cell measured only eight or nine square meters and contained only a shabby bed, desk and chair. (…) “But he knew that the prisoner closest to him was Wan Li, the deputy mayor of Beijing, and that further along were Field Marshal Peng Dehuai, General Luo Ruiqing and many other national leaders ».
(en) The Tibetan People's Princess, China Rights Forum, no 4, 2006 : « In order to pass the time in prison more usefully, my dad not only recited Buddhist sutras every day, but also studied Chinese language and Marxist-Leninism. As a result, my dad, who originally spoke only Tibetan, eventually became fluent in Chinese and gained a firm grasp of Marxist-Leninism, and he translated a Tibetan dictionary into Chinese ».
(en) The Tibetan People's Princess, China Rights Forum, No 4, 2006 : « My mom, Li Jie, was the beloved granddaughter of a Kuomintang general, Dong Qiwu ».
(en) The Tibetan People's Princess, China Rights Forum, No 4, 2006 : « From that time on, my dad strictly obeyed the tenets of Tibetan Buddhism and never again wore a monk’s cassock, exchanging it for the attire of Tibetan nobility. Even when he participated in religious ceremonies, he never tried to conceal the fact that he had a wife and family.” »
Caroline Puel, « Le rapport post mortem qui accuse Pékin. En 1962, le 10e panchen-lama dénonçait les exactions chinoises au Tibet. », Libération, (lire en ligne)
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(en) Wang Lixiong, Reflections on Tibet, in New Left Review, 14, mars-avril 2002 : « On their arrival at Beijing railway station they were met by Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, while Deng Xiaoping personally checked their living quarters and Mao Zedong received and hosted several dinner parties for them. The Dalai Lama, just nineteen, was made a Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and the Panchen Lama, even younger, nominated a Standing Committee member. »
(en) Nicholas D. Kristoff, The Panchen Lama Is Dead at 50; Key Figure in China's Tibet Policy, The New York Times, 30 janvier 1989, p. 2 : « The reaction by Chinese officials to his illness was a sign of the premium they placed on him: On hearing he had had a heart attack, the Communist Party General Secretary, Zhao Ziyang, sent a team of cardiologists to Xigaze by a special plane. »
(en) Glenn Freeman, The Panchen Lama and Tibet's Future, 'Trendirama.com, 20 février 2007, reproduit sur le site exilé Phayul.com : « in 1951 the Panchen Lama was invited to Beijing to coincide with the arrival of a Tibetan delegation. The delegation was eventually forced to sign the infamous "Seventeen-Point Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet": an agreement which served to legitimize the acquisition of Tibet by China. While in Beijing, the Panchen Lama was forced to send a telegram to the Dalai Lama, stressing the importance of implementing the "Seventeen-Point Agreement under the leadership of the People's Government of China." ».
(en) Benjamin Kang Lim, Thousands in China pay tribute to late Tibetan lama, Reuters, reproduit sur le site phayul.com, 11 février 2008 : « Nearly 20 years after his death, with Beijing and Tibetans at odds over his successor, the big show of public affection suggested he remains a potent symbol of Tibetan aspirations ».
(en) Tibet's Stolen Child, the 11th Panchen Lama, sur le site de l'association Campagne internationale pour le Tibet : « In an extraordinary public speech made in 1989 in Shigatse, the Panchen Lama was less reserved. He called for the Dalai Lama to be allowed to collaborate with him in Tibetan policy making and openly challenged the Chinese leadership's policies in Tibet. Shortly after this address, the Chinese Daily printed another critical statement which vaulted the Panchen Lama's international image as a critic of the Chinese government: "Since liberation, there has certainly been development, but the price paid for this development has been greater than the gains." (As reported in the China Daily, January 25, 1989.) ».
(en) Excerpts from Qincheng: A Twentieth Century Bastille, in Exploration, mars 1979 : « Some inmates, unable to endure such conditions, attempt suicide. Others go on hunger strikes. For example, the Panchen Lama [from Tibet] once refused food. He declared that he did not wish to live any longer and that his remains should be "delivered to the Central Committee of the Party". »
(en) Sitting-inthe-bed with the 11th Panchen Erdeni, IV - 10th Panchen died in Tashilumpo Monastery, http://www.chinaview.cn, 9 avril 2009 : « On Jan. 27, the 10th Panchen held a banquet in his residence for representatives of cadres and the mass of Xigaze. He was very happy at the banquet and even danced with the guests. He did not go to bed till the midnight. At four o' clock the next morning, the 10th Panchen woke up from chest distress, with an ache in his back and arms. He went back to sleep after a checkup and at 8:25 am, the 10th Panchen suffered a seizure and lost consciousness. The condition of the 10th Panchen was reported to the Central Government immediately. Despite the emergency treatment from a special medical team sent by the Central Government, the 10th Panchen died at 20: 16. »
