(en) Melvyn Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1997, pp. 109-110 : « While many in exile and in the West see this as a victory for the Dalai Lama, it is hard to understand their logic. To be sure, it made Tibetans and their Western supporters feel good to see the Dalai Lama exert his authority over this issue, but the price he paid was substantial and the gains were minuscule. In practical terms, the Panchen Lama he selected is not safe in exile under his tutelage, so he has in effect relegated the boy he chose to a life of house arrest. This creates a powerful human rights issue for the exiles, but only at the cost of further fueling the distrust and animosity that many in China already feel toward him, just at the time when he is under increasing pressure to persuade China to soften its policies in Tibet. Moreover, his announcement has badly undermined the credibility of the more moderate Chinese officials who sold the State Council on the idea that an ethnically sensitive selection process would be in China's best interests. It has therefore reinforced the hard-liners' contention that China cannot trust or work with the Dalai Lama and set back chances that China will agree to renew talks with him. And it has allowed the "prize" — the new Panchen Lama — to fall under the control of China ».
(en) Résumé (abstract) de Max Gordon Oidtmann, Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, 1792-1912, Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University, 2018, xv + 612 p., p. iii : « the Qing court exported a Ming-era bureaucratic technology – a lottery, and repurposed it as a divination technology – the Goldern Urn. »
11th Panchen Lama alive, receiving education: Dalai Lama, The Statesman, 25 avril, 2018: "Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday said 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima “according to reliable source is alive and receiving normal education”. Talking to the media at Gaggal Airport in Kangra district after returning from four-day Delhi visit, the Dalai Lama hoped that the official Panchen Lama studies well under the guidance of a good teacher. “Then the Panchen Lama, which I recognised sometime back, there was no news, but then according to reliable information, he is still alive and receiving normal education. So we will see,” he said. He said there are instances in Tibetan Buddhist tradition, “where a reincarnated lama took more than one manifestation”."
