In 1995, the Chinese government abducted
a six-year-old boy ... because he is
the young reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama.

He has been missing ever since.

Please consider joining the campaign to free
the youngest political prisoner in the world.

Campaign pages in English

• NEW The International Campaign for Tibet is spearheading a Free the Panchen Lama international campaign.
• Rangzen (the International Tibet Independent Movement) has its own Panchen Lama campaign, as well as a postcard campaign.
• The Milarepa Fund has an activist webpage on the Eleventh Panchen Lama.
• The Panchen Lama letter campaign provides a sample protest letter which you can use for composing your own.
• The Canada-Tibet Committee (CTC), whose homepage includes a valuable daily news update on Tibet, also has a Take Action for Tibet page especially for Canadians.
• The Official Panchen Lama Web Site by the Canada Tibet Committee is a marvellous activist/public education page, designed especially for schoolchildren but with resources helpful for anyone concerned with the campaign for his release.
• In the United Kingdom, the Free Tibet Campaign of Panchen Lama campaign page.
• In Australia, the Australia Tibet Council's Panchen Lama campaign page.

Campaign pages in other languages

• NEW En France, Pour la libération du plus jeune prisonnier politique du monde est une page des renseignements en français.
• In Sweden, the Stiftelsen Tibet-projekt Panchen Lama campaign page.

Resources

• NEW Tibet's Stolen Child is a 60-minute documentary on the Panchen Lama, narrated by Patrick Stewart and with interviews with six Nobel Peace Prize laureates (H.H. the Dalai Lama, John Hume, Mairead Maguire, Jose Ramos-Horta, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel). It was produced by Garthwait & Griffin Films.
• NEW Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is the home-in-exile of the monastery of the H.H. the Panchen Lama. This attractive new website includes information about the monastery, the present Panchen Lama, and the lineage of previous Panchen Lamas.
• Dreams of Tibet: Panchen Lama is PBS Frontline's report on the missing boy (1998).
• Infinite's site includes a discussion group on the Panchen Lama crisis, which includes some good postings (e.g. this report from Tashilhunpo, November 1997).

Background information

• The Official Panchen Lama Web Site by the Canada Tibet Committee includes background information on the kidnapping of the Panchen Lama (written with schoolchildren in mind).
• A BBC World News report on the Panchen Lama struggle:  Battle over Tibet's Boy Leader (January 28, 1999).
• The identification of the Eleventh Panchen Lama.  Excerpts from the testimony of Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins to the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (September 7, 1995).
• The Office of Tibet offers a page of news stories and official announcements pertaining to this issue.

If you know of any important resources I have missed out, please e-mail me at waibsite@yahoo.com.

Julia Milton
March 18, 2001

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