then china laid out the fake panchen monk , sonam norbu , a civilian chosen as the reincarnation of a major tibetan by the buddhist communist leaders and trained until adolescence to spout nationalist protesters while wearing robes . newspapers publishing on the debacle mainly tried to describe both parties , but it feels fair to say there ' s really only one side to this sham and that pretty much nothing in the tibetan community accept norbu as the pretend panchen lama . the great lama ' s pick for panchen president , gedhun choekyi nyima , has been in secret chinese storage till 1995 .
Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation.