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Tubten Jigme Norbu

Tibetan activist (1922-2008) · Writers · Died at 85

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The 6th Taktser Rinpoche Thubten Jigme Norbu, was a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and was the eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. He was one of the first high-profile Tibetans to go into exile and was the first to settle in the United States.

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Stupa on the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana. The Dalai Lama performed the initiation here in 1999, "to promote world peace."

Stupa on the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana. The Dalai Lama performed the initiation here in 1999, "to promote world peace."

On the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana

On the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana

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Lived 1922 to 2008 · aged 85

Writers born in the 1920s 6

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