(TibetanReview.net, Oct21’25) – A religious gathering on the scale of a Kalachakra empowerment ceremony is unthinkable in the grid-managed Chinese ruled Tibet these days. It is therefore noteworthy that China just recently organized a Kalachakra Empowerment Ceremony in Tibet’s Shigatse City, conducted by Gyaincain Norbu, the “11thPanchen Lama” appointed by it in 1995 after abducting and disappearing Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the then six-year-old who had already been recognized by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the late 10th Panchen Lama.
China’s official media reported on the ceremony by underlining Gyaincain Norbu’s imposing party-state posts, as i...





