NEW DELHI, Dec 8 (Reuter) - About 400 Tibetans demonstrated in the Indian capital on Friday to protest against China's enthronement of a six-year-old boy as Panchen Lama, the second holiest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, organisers said.

Marchers carried the picture of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a six-year-old named in May by the Himalayan region's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India.

Ignoring the Dalai Lama's choice, the Communist Chinese government enthroned Gyaincain Norbu as the 11th Panchen Lama on Friday at a ceremony in the Tibetan city of Shigaste.

The Tibetan community in the north Indian Himalayan town of Dharamsala, where Tibet's god-king lives in exile, went on a hunger strike in protest.

"The Tibetan community in Dharamsala is on a token hunger strike for 24 hours," Tempa Tsering, an information officer at the Dalai Lama's office in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, told Reuters.

"We have outrightly rejected the Chinese choice," said Jampal Chosang, secretary of All India office of the Dalai Lama in Delhi.

The Dalai Lama had announced the recognition of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in May as the boy who had received the spirit of 10th Panchen Lama, who died in January 1989.

The Buddhist spritual leader has been living in exile in Dharamsala since 1959, along with thousands of his followers, when he fled after an abortive uprising against the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1950.