Chadrel Rinpoche

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Chadrel Rinpoche (Tibetan: བྱ་བྲལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: bya bral rin po che) was born in 1939 in Shigatse, Tibet. He was also known formally as Jadrel Jampa Thinley Rinpoche (Tibetan: བྱམས་པ་ཕྲིན་ལས་, Wylie: byams pa phrin las), and was a Gelug school Rinpoche of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1954, he joined the Tashilhunpo Monastery at the age of 15, and was forced to work in a labor camp during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. He was a close student of Choekyi Gyaltsen, the 10th Panchen Lama. Later Chadrel Rinpoche became the head Khenpo of the Tashilhunpo Monastery. In 1989, Chadrel Rinpoche was appointed to lead the Chinese efforts to locate the reincarnated 11th Panchen Lama. In February 1995 while in Beijing, he refused plans to substitute the reincarnate Gedhun Choekyi Nyima with another boy. As a result, he was arrested after Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was formally recognized, then he was continually imprisoned and held under house arrest until his reported suspicious death from poisoning in 2011. He was also a Member of the 7th and 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). After the death of the 10th Panchen Lama in 1989, Chadrel Rinpoche was appointed as the deputy head of the Chinese government's Panchen Lama search committee, created as an effort to control the reincarnation of lamas. Gyayag Rinpoche, was the head of the Chinese search committee but died in 1990, and Chadrel Rinpoche succeeded him. Chadrel Rinpoche was communicating with the 14th Dalai Lama and others following the authentic recognition process, which was permitted by China. On 14 May 1995, the Dalai Lama recognized Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama. The Chinese government reacted severely: Chadrel Rinpoche was disappeared from the Hanzhong Xiguan Airport in Chengdu on either 14 May, during his return from Beijing to Chengdu,...