Lacarne, « Au Thibet — Le Dalaï-Lama de Lhassa duit la domination anglaise », Le Petit Journal, supplément du dimanche, Paris, no 781, , p. 370 (lire en ligne)
(en) Melvyn Goldstein, The Snow Lion and the Dragon, p. 103 : « Relations between the Panchen and Dalai Lamas in the early twentieth century were poor, so when the thirteenth Dalai Lama levied new taxes on feudal estate holders after his return to Lhasa from India in 1913, the ninth Panchen Lama refused, arguing that the terms of his land grants (from the Manchu emperor) precluded such additional taxation.[9] The thirteenth Dalai Lama's insistence on payment precipitated the flight of the ninth Panchen Lama into exile in China together with his top officials in 1924. He died there in 1937. »
(de) Susanne Amtsberg, Das Dach der Seligen : Roman (lire en ligne), p. 255
(en) Alex McKay, Tibet and the British Raj : The Frontier Cadre, 1904-1947 (lire en ligne), p. 35:« In February 1907 he suggested that India should encourage the Panchen Lama to declare his independence from Lhasa and create a separate state in southern Tibet, ruled from his Shigatse headquarters. The British would then recognise and support the new state. »
Eric Faye, Christian Garcin, Dans les pas d'Alexandra David Néel, Stock, 2018, 320 p. (livre numérique Google, n. p.) : « la situation s'était rapidement dégradée en Chine avec la chute de la dynastie Qing en 1911, et le Tibet s'était autoproclamé indépendant l'année suivante - une indépendance que, soit dit en passant, aucun État ne reconnut jamais. »
(en) Foster Stockwell, Westerners in China: A History of Exploration and Trade, Ancient Times Through the Present, McFarland, 2003, 226 p., p. 121 : « In 1916 she again went into Tibet, this time at the invitation of the Panchen Lama [...]. He gave her access to Tashilhunpo's immense libraries of Buddhists scriptures and made every corner of the various temples accessible to her. She was lavishly entertained by both the Panchen Lama and his mother, with whom she remained a longtime friend. "The special psychic atmosphere of the place enchanted me," she later wrote. "I have seldom enjoyed such blissful hours." »
(en) Joseph W. Esherick et C.X. George Wei, China : How the Empire Fell, Rootledge, , 302 p. (ISBN978-1-134-61215-4, lire en ligne), p. 184 : « According to statistics in The History of the 1911 Uprising, eighteen provinces and districts supported the revolution by the end of December 1911. Wu Tingfang, the south's chief negotiator, notified Prince Qing that the emperor had better abdicate and endorse a republic before Qing rule collapsed, as all parts of the country declared independence one after the other. »
