Shakabpa Wangchuk Deden, better known as Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, was a Tibetan nobleman, scholar, historian, statesman and former Finance Minister of the government of Tibet.
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1948 meeting of Shakabpa and the last British Viceroy of India, Lord Louis Mountbatten
The 1950 Tibetan Delegation to India met with Indian Prime Minister Nehru at his residence in New Delhi. Front row (left to right): Tsecha Thubten Gyalpo, Pema Yudon Shakabpa (wife of Tsepon Shakabpa), Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Tsering Dolma (sister of the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet), Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa, Depon Phuntsok Tashi Takla (husband of Tsering Dolma). Back row left is Dzasa Jigme Taring.
1947 Tsepon WD Shakabpa Passport (Collection: Friends of Tibet Foundation + Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)Writers born in the 1900s 6
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1907 to 1989 · aged 82
Written about in
6 languages
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