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Article: The World's Youngest Political Prisoner.(Tibet's Dalai Lama contends that China is holding prisoner a holy man)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Every participant at an international human rights conference last June received a small pamphlet published by Tibetan supporters of Tibetan Buddhism's highest-ranking figure, the Dalai Lama. Entitled "The World's Youngest Political Prisoner," the pamphlet makes a plea for support for a young boy, now nine years old, who the Chinese government has allegedly kidnapped and detained. The Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile for forty years, claims the boy is the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, the second holiest individual in Tibetan Buddhism.
The conference took place in Dharamsala, India, the headquarters of the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan ...