China/Tibet: Chairman Mao Zedong with the 10th Panchen Lama, Choekyi Gyaltsen (left), and the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (right), Beijing, 11 September 1954. The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or 'Yellow Hat' branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The Panchen Lama is the highest ranking Lama after the Dalai Lama in the Gelugpa (Dge-lugs-pa) sect of Tibetan Buddhism (the sect which controlled western Tibet from the 16th century until the imposition of Chinese sovereignty in 1951).

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