A prayer service in honor of the birthday of the Panchen Lama will be held at the Central Khurul of Kalmykia

Tomorrow, April 25, at 9.00, a prayer service in honor of the birthday of the Panchen Lama will be held at the Central Khurul of Kalmykia “The Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni”. The Panchen Lamas are a line of reincarnations that has existed since the beginning of the 17th century. This is the second hierarch of Buddhism after the Dalai Lama in the Gelug school, who is considered an emanation of Buddha Amitabha. In 1989, at the age of 51, the 10th Panchen Lama Choekyi Gyaltsen passed away. On May 14, 1995, His Holiness the Dalai Lama announced that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the 11th Panchen Lama. The new Panchen Lama was born on April 25, 1989, in Lhari Dzong, in Nagchu, in Tibet. Three days after the statement was issued, the Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his parents disappeared. At the age of 6, the 11th Panchen Lama became the youngest political prisoner in the world. Tomorrow the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima turns 32; his whereabouts are still unknown.