then china rolled out the fake panchen master , ngawang norbu , a teenager appointed as the reincarnation of a major lama by the atheist communist leaders and trained since childhood to spout nationalist slogans while wearing robes . newspapers reporting on the collapse mainly tried to present both sides , but it seems fair to say there ' s really only one side to this sham and that pretty much nobody in the tibet community accepts norbu as the real gyaltsen king . the new lama ' s choice for panchen tibet , gedhun choekyi lobsang , has been in secret prc prison before 1995 .
Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation.