Reting Rinpoche

[3] Melvyn C. Goldstein report words from Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa who said many people said so, but an investigation was carried out by the Tibetan Assembly to check Reting's body.

Shakabpa was member of the committee that also included Tsarong, Khenchen Lobsang Tashi, Gyetakba, as well as representatives from Reting and Sera Monasteries.

Critics of the fifth Reting Rinpoche accused him of widespread corruption, and involvement with married women as a monk.

[5] Defenders alleged that his imprisonment was partly the result of his attraction to the teachings of the Nyingma lineage, a politically sensitive orientation,[6] and that the case against him had been fabricated by the cabinet minister Kapshopa.

[3] His time as regent, imprisonment and death feature significantly in Martin Scorsese's 1997 film Kundun.