In 1979, he married a Han Chinese woman and in 1983 they had a daughter.[51] In 1989, the 10th Panchen Lama died suddenly in Shigatse at the age of 51 shortly after giving a speech criticizing the excesses of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet but however praising the reform and opening up of the 1980s.[52] His daughter, now a young woman, is Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo, better known as "Renji".[53]