October 1, 2019, is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In the courtesy car of the celebration, among a group of revolutionary veterans or descendants of the founding fathers, sat a special woman, and in her hand held a portrait of a man who looked very strange.
The portrait in the hands of this smiling girl is of the 10th Panchen Lama Erdene Choekyi Gyaltsen, who was also her father.
And the Panchen Lama has been reincarnated for more than 600 years, and only the Tenth Panchen Lama has married and had children and has the only daughter...
"Princess" Renji
Renji was born in Beijing in 1983, and her full name is Yaosi Ban Renjiwangm, which means "Our Lady of Wisdom", which is enough to see how much the 10th Panchen Lama loved this daughter.
From birth, what Renji received was very different, as the daughter of the 10th Panchen Lama, the Tibetan people loved her and Wu, affectionately calling her "Princess" Renji.
When she had a memory, Renji found that she had a lot of staff around her, up to forty or fifty people at most, and all of them served her alone.
The 10th Panchen Lama family
Tashilhunpo Monastery was a frequent place for Xiao Renji when she was a child, and it was also the temple where her father, the 10th Panchen Lama, was located, and the lamas and living Buddhas in the temple were very fond of this lovely "princess" and often took advantage of their free time to play with her.
Because of this experience when he was a child, Renji always said that he was "deeply related to Buddhism" and was born with Buddhism.
In Renji's memory, her father's lap was the most comfortable place, and it was also the feeling of nostalgia in her heart.
The 10th Panchen Lama was a very devout Buddhist who got up at 5 o'clock every morning to chant the sutra, and when Xiao Renji woke up, he would clamor for his father.
Due to illness, the 10th Panchen Lama gradually became rounded in middle age, and when he sat cross-legged, there was a lot of space on his legs.
The staff brought her to her father, and she happily threw herself on his lap and listened to his father chant while snoozing.
From Monday to Friday, Renji would live in town with his parents and return to another home in West Hill on weekends.
The 10th Panchen Lama and Renji
The home has many small animals of all kinds, and for young Renji, this is paradise.
Her father would feed the critters with her, and the two of them would name them together, both in Chinese and Tibetan.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, her father would always teach her some Chinese, which slowly aroused her interest.
Renji can be said to have grown up under the wholehearted love of his father, whether he went out or returned home, Xiao Renji's face would always become red, and the reason was because of his father's kiss.
For this daughter, the Tenth Panchen Lama, he was very "conniving", and when meetings were held, Xiao Renji always ran around randomly, and even climbed up and down on him.
The staff wanted to stop it, but he kissed Renji's little face and smiled; "It doesn't matter".
However, when Renji was five and a half years old, his father died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 51 when he presided over the opening ceremony of the joint burial of the Ninth Panchen Lama.
The 10th Panchen Lama
Only 5 and a half years old Renji and her 31-year-old mother Li Jie were left.
It is not difficult to see from the name that her mother is Han Chinese, and there is also a red background.
"Unity Clan" Renji
Renji also has another name, called "Tuantuan", which was taken by Deng Yingchao.
At that time, the children born to Tibetans and Han Chinese were called "Tuanjie", and Renji was a member of the Tuanjie.
It can be said that the name "Tuantuan" also represents a good wish for the unity of the two ethnic groups.
Some people wonder, isn't the Panchen Lama a monk, why can he get married, and why he has a daughter?
This is why many people do not understand Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism belongs to Mahayana Buddhism, there are fewer rules and precepts, so it is not uncommon for living Buddhas to intermarry in Tibet.
From the first Panchen Lama to the present, only the Tenth Panchen Lama has chosen to marry, and Renji has become the only daughter of the Panchen Lama reincarnated for more than 600 years.
Deng Yingchao and the 10th Panchen lama family
Her mother, Li Jie, was Dong Qiwu's beloved granddaughter, and knowing and marrying the 10th Panchen Lama was also a long-standing story.
In 1978, the 10th Panchen Lama traveled with other democrats in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee to appreciate the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
At that time, the founding general Dong Qiwu led a regiment specifically responsible for protecting their safety.
The Tenth Panchen Lama was a kind man with a good personality, and with the youngest age in the group, he quickly reached a point with the soldiers, and had the best relationship with a young guard next to Dong Qiwu.
After more than two months of getting along, the two formed a deep friendship, often called brothers and brothers, and later, once, the Tenth Panchen Lama accidentally revealed his true thoughts in his heart: he wanted to find someone to marry.
However, because he rarely comes into contact with the opposite sex, he will choose to ask him for help.
This guard was also warm-hearted, patting his chest to reassure; "No problem, it's all up to me."
The 10th Panchen Lama presented Hada to Chairman Mao
But the guard himself is still a bare stick, where to find a woman to introduce him? He thought about it, and considering the identity of the Tenth Panchen Lama, he finally decided to seek help from others.
Li Jie is Dong Qiwu's beloved granddaughter, so she is also very familiar with the guards around her grandfather.
The young guard approached her and said, "Xiao Jie, you know many female soldiers, can you help the Tenth Panchen Lama to draw a red line?" ”
Li Jie was in college at the time, young and energetic, for this kind of thing she had never done before, naturally felt very novel, and agreed to this matter; "What does he like?"
The guard touched his head and said, "If you two meet each other, you should ask him in person." ”
Perhaps because the guards did not count clearly, the Tenth Panchen Lama thought that this was an official meeting, and Li Jie also called his fifth aunt, who loved to speak the media, to go to the appointment together.
The 10th Panchen Lama and Li Jie
In this way, a beautiful misunderstanding arose.
Li Jiesheng is extremely beautiful, with a pair of bright eyes on his palm-sized small face, and exudes elegance and intellectual temperament.
According to Renji, "Dad was attracted to Hera at the first sight of Hera. ”
The 10th Panchen Lama was 40 years old at the time, but he had never been with the other opposite sex and introduced himself clearly at the first meeting.
It just so happens that this rare frankness makes Li Jie feel good about this elegant middle-aged man.
Li Jie's family did not agree with this family affair, first because of the honorable status of the Tenth Panchen Lama, and because of the 20-year-old age difference between the two.
But even so, Li Jie still abandoned her studies in the military medical department of the Fourth Military Medical University and chose to follow love.
The 10th Panchen Lama family
In January 1979, the 41-year-old 10th Panchen Lama married 21-year-old Li Jiexi and held a wedding ceremony at the Palace of National Culture in Beijing, and many central leaders came to attend the wedding to send them good wishes.
After their marriage, the 10th Panchen Lama adhered to the gelug precepts and no longer wore robes, but instead showed the public in Tibetan robes.
Whether it is Buddhism or other important occasions, he also does not shy away from bringing his wife Li Jie, who is also his secretary, to the scene.
In 1983, the two had the crystallization of love, and the cute little Renji was born.
When she was a hundred days old, Deng Yingchao saw that she was very cute and white, fat, and proposed: "Why not call tuantuan by a small name!"
In this way, Renji spent 5 very happy years under the favor of her parents, she was very intelligent from an early age, so she has very deep memories of her childhood, such as the specific scenes when her father, the Tenth Panchen Lama, left home before the accident.
The 10th Panchen Lama presented Hada to Premier Zhou
Renji had also sent his father to a plane to a foreign country before, but that day he was very reluctant and held his daughter for a long time before ordering the departure.
Who knows, it wasn't long before she and her mother learned of her father's death.
At the age of 13, he went to the United States alone
After graduating from elementary school, Li Jie decided to send Renji abroad to study, and temporarily placed her in the home of her 5 aunts.
Renji left her family at a young age, although the fifth aunt was very kind to her, but because she was busy starting a business, there was always a place where she did not take good care of her, and Renji was also very sensible, always reporting good news and not worrying.
Whenever the fifth aunt asked her how she was doing at school, she always said, "It's fine, you don't have to worry, I'm already a big child."
But in fact, renji's school has many small, there are only 4 Asian students in the whole school, Renji can't speak English or understand Cantonese, and the exclusion in the school can be imagined how serious.
Until 5 months later, Li Jie really did not trust her daughter and personally flew to New York to see how she was doing.
The 10th Panchen Lama
In the beginning, Renji still reported good news and no worries, always saying that he was doing well in school and letting her let go of ten thousand hearts.
But Li Jie knows her daughter too well, and even if she disguises herself well, she can find something wrong from some details.
As a mother, Li Jie felt that she was very incompetent and had let her daughter suffer for so long.
After many inquiries, Li Jie learned that stephen Sig, a famous Hollywood star, was a Tibetan Buddhist in Qiancheng, so she took the initiative to contact him, hoping that he could become Renji's guardian in the United States for the next few years.
In this way, Renji not only transferred from the chaotic middle school to the private school, but also had a very gentle guardian.
She usually lives at school, and on weekends, Stephen will drive her home and take her out for a very enjoyable weekend.
Renji
When she went to college, Renji chose to major in politics because she remembered the scene of her father's work when she was a child, and she thought of the Tibetan people who were far away in China, and she felt that she should do something for the Tibetan people like her father.
We must do something for the Tibetan people
Loving religion, loving the nation, loving the country, and loving the party are the true portrayals of the life of the Tenth Panchen Lama.
Born in Qinghai in 1938, the 10th Panchen Lama died and was brought back by members of the Panchen Khenpo Conference Hall as a candidate for a spiritual child.
In September 1949, the 10th Panchen Lama contacted the Communist Party and expressed his absolute support for the Communist Party and hoped that Tibet would be liberated at an early date.
In 1951, when Tibet was finally liberated peacefully, the 10th Panchen Lama said at a celebratory banquet:
"The victorious settlement of the internal nationality problem in China, which has not been resolved for many years, under the leadership of Chairman Mao, is a great joy for the big family of all nationalities in China.
The 10th Panchen Lama family
Later, for the sake of peace in Tibet, he went to Tibet seven times, to Qinghai three times, and to The Tibetan areas of Sichuan twice.
He has made great contributions to the unity and stability of Tibet, and the people in Tibetan areas sincerely thank him and love him.
He resolutely opposed Tibetan independence: "I opposed the act of splitting the motherland in the past, oppose it now, and oppose it in the future..."
On January 29, 1989, the 10th Panchen Lama died of a heart attack at the age of 51 after holding a light opening ceremony.
The central government decided to build a gold leaf pagoda for the 10th Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo Monastery to enshrine the Dharma body of the master, and the pagoda burial was the highest funeral method enjoyed by the most famous living Buddhas.
Renji also followed her father's example, and after graduating from university, she received many invitations to study in famous universities, but she still resolutely returned to China and became a doctor of finance at Tsinghua University.
Renji
After that, Renji, like his father, cared about Tibet and did what he could for the people in Tibetan areas.
When the Yushu earthquake in Qinghai 2010 occurred, Renji was in a hurry, she quickly calmed down, and then quickly calmed down and began to raise funds for Yushu, and finally raised a total of 2.03 million yuan of supplies.
In addition to caring for the people in the disaster area, for some vulnerable groups, such as the elderly with cataracts, Renji also relies on his own ability to help them perform surgery for free and return their healthy eyes.
In order to have a better development for the people in Tibetan areas, Renji is also committed to developing the economy of her hometown, and the largest investment she has attracted for her hometown is as high as 30 million yuan, only to help the people in her hometown get out of poverty.
Every time she returned to Tibet, Renji was always warmly welcomed by the local people, and when she left, people spontaneously gathered to send her off.
Looking at the people who were gradually getting smaller, Renji was very touched in her heart, and she felt that the burden on her body was getting heavier and heavier.