The Chinese, having perfected the art of copying watches and DVDs, believe they have made a perfect copy of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second-most revered religious figure, and set him loose on the streets of a prefecture in Southern Tibet. The state-owned Xinhua news service reported Tuesday that thousands of Tibetan Buddhists had gathered in Lhoka prefecture on China's border with India to see Gyaltsen Norbu, Beijing's copy of the Panchen Lama, who was appointed by the Chinese as a six-year-old boy in 1995.
China's Copy-Watch Panchen Lama
China's Copy-Watch Panchen Lama
China's Copy-Watch Panchen Lama
The Chinese, having perfected the art of copying watches and DVDs, believe they have made a perfect copy of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second-most revered religious figure, and set him loose on the streets of a prefecture in Southern Tibet. The state-owned Xinhua news service reported Tuesday that thousands of Tibetan Buddhists had gathered in Lhoka prefecture on China's border with India to see Gyaltsen Norbu, Beijing's copy of the Panchen Lama, who was appointed by the Chinese as a six-year-old boy in 1995.
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