23 January to high-ranking officials and that were published in the People's Daily and the China Daily. In 2011, the Chinese dissident Yuan Hongbing declared that Hu Jintao, then the Communist Party Secretary of Tibet and the Political Commissar of the PLA's Tibet units, had masterminded the death of the 10th Panchen Lama. According to the state-run Peoples Daily, the Dalai Lama was invited by the Buddhist Association of China to attend the Panchen Lama's funeral and to take the opportunity to contact Tibet's religious communities. The Dalai Lama was unable to attend the funeral. See also Panchen Lama History of Tibet (1950–present) Protests and uprisings in Tibet since 1950 14th Dalai Lama References Citations Sources Feigon, Lee. Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows (1996) Ivan R. Dee, Publisher. . Goldstein, Melvyn C. The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama (1997) University of California Press. . Hilton, Elizabeth. The Search for the Panchen Lama (2000) W. W. Norton & Company. . Kapstein, Matthew T. The Tibetans (2006) Blackwell Publishing. . Laird, Thomas. (2006). The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama. Grove Press, New York. . McKay, Alex (ed.). Tibet and Her Neighbours: A History (2003) Walther Konig. . External links The Panchen Lama's Last Speech: Full Text (Columbia.edu) 1938 births 1989 deaths Panchen Lama 10 Tibetan people Tibetan Buddhists from China 20th-century lamas People from Haidong People's Republic of China politicians from Qinghai Political office-holders in Tibet Vice Chairpersons of the National People's Congress Vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Victims of the Cultural Revolution