# List of Panchen Lamas

This is a list of Panchen Lamas of Tibet. There are currently 10 recognised incarnations of the Panchen Lama; the 11th Panchen Lama is disputed however.

## List

| Title | Name (Lifespan) | Recognition | Tibetan Wylie transliteration | THL and other transliterations |
| 1st Panchen Lama | Khedrup Gelek Pelzang (1385–1438) | posthumously | མཁས་གྲུབ་རྗེ། mkhas grub rje,་ མཁས་གྲུབ་དགེ་ལེགས་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ། mkhas grub dge legs dpal bzang po | Khédrup Gélek Pelzangpo Khädrup Je Khedrup Gelek Pelsang Kedrup Geleg Pelzang Khedup Gelek Palsang Khedrup Gelek Pal Sangpo |
| 2nd Panchen Lama | Sönam Choklang (1438–1505) | posthumously | བསོད་ནམས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ། bsod nams phyogs glang,་ བསོད་ནམས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་ bsod nams phyogs kyi glang po | Sönam Chok kyi Langpo Sonam Choglang Soenam Choklang |
| 3rd Panchen Lama | Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup (1505–1568) | posthumously | དབེན་ས་པ་བློ་བཟང་དོན་གྲུབ། dben sa pa blo bzang don grub | Wensapa Lozang Döndrup Gyalwa Ensapa Ensapa Lozang Döndrup Ensapa Losang Dhodrub |
| 4th Panchen Lama | Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten (1570–1662) | 1645–1662 | བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན། blo bzang chos kyi rgyal mtshan | Lozang Chö kyi Gyeltsen Losang Chökyi Gyältsän Lozang Chökyi Gyeltsen Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen Lobsang Choegyal Losang Chögyan |
| 5th Panchen Lama | Lobsang Yeshe (1663–1737) | 1663–1737 | བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས། blo bzang ye shes | Lozang Yéshé Lobsang Yeshi Losang Yeshe |
| 6th Panchen Lama | Lobsang Palden Yeshe (1738–1780) | 1738–1780 | བློ་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཡེ་ཤེས། blo bzang dpal ldan ye shes | Lozang Penden Yéshé Palden Yeshe Palden Yeshi |
| 7th Panchen Lama | Palden Tenpai Nyima (1782–1853) | 1782–1853 | དཔལ་ལྡན་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ། pal ldan bstan pa'i nyi ma | Penden Tenpé Nyima Tänpä Nyima Tenpé Nyima Tempai Nyima Tenpey Nyima |
| 8th Panchen Lama | Tenpai Wangchuk (1855–1882) | 1857–1882 | བསྟན་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག bstan pa'i dbang phyug | Tenpé Wangchuk Tänpä Wangchug Tenpé Wangchuk Tempai Wangchuk Tenpey Wangchuk |
| 9th Panchen Lama | Thupten Chökyi Nyima (1883–1937) | 1888–1937 | ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ། thub bstan chos kyi nyi ma | Tupten Chö kyi Nyima Choekyi Nyima Thubtän Chökyi Nyima |
| 10th Panchen Lama | Choekyi Gyaltsen (1938–1989) | 1938–1989 | བློ་བཟང་ཕྲིན་ལས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན། blo bzang phrin las lhun grub chos kyi rgyal mtshan | Lozang Trinlé Lhündrup Chö kyi Gyeltsen Choekyi Gyaltsen Chökyi Gyeltsen Choekyi Gyaltse Trinley Choekyi Gyaltsen Lozang Trinlä Lhündrup Chökyi Gyältsän |

## 11th Panchen Lama schism

After the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, his succession came to be disputed between the exiled 14th Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China. This resulted in a schism between two competing candidates are claimed to be the 11th Panchen Lama.
| Name (Lifespan) | Portrait | Recognition | Tibetan Wylie transliteration | THL and other transliterations | Notes | References |
| Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (born 1989) | | 14 May 1995 – present | དགེ་འདུན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ dGe 'dun Chos kyi nyi ma | Gedhun Choekyi Nyima | Claim supported by the 14th Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration. | $^{:6}$ |
| Gyaincain Norbu (born 1990) | | 8 December 1995 – present | ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ། chos kyi rgyal po | Chö kyi Gyelpo Choekyi Gyalpo Chökyi Gyälbo Gyaltsen Norbu Qoigyijabu | Claim supported by the People's Republic of China. | $^{:109}$ |