Thupten ngodup biography definition

  • All we know is that he was born in 1938 in the Village of Gyatso Shar in Tsang Province.
  • The current, or 17th, medium for the Nechung spirit is the 55-year-old Thupten Ngodup.
  • They speak of Ngodup as the kind of freedom fighter Tibet urgently needs: someone who acts out of his own feelings and conviction, rejecting the.

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    On April 27th, 1998, the patriot Thupten Ngodup set himself on fire in Delhi, and died for the cause of Tibetan independence. Exactly ten years later to the day, on April 27th, 2008, in New York City the Tibetan Independence Torch was lit by Gyen Palden Gyatso and handed to me. As the first runner inom jogged down Broadway with the torch raised high. It would be nice to say that it had all been planned this way, the decennial commemoration, the exact day, the appropriate fiery symbol of Rangzen and so on. But of course it wasn’t.

    Everyone had just been too busy preparing lectures, giving interviews, shouting slogans, painting banners, fixing sound-systems, organizing this that and the other, and were anyway just too burned out by over 47 days of straight protests and demonstrations. It is rather shameful to have to admit it but we had forgotten our brave friend. Perhaps the coincidence was his way of reaching out to us, letting us know that he didn’t mind. That

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    December 18, 2005

    The Restless Children of the Dalai Lama

    By PANKAJ MISHRA
    Philip Blenskinsop/Agence VU, for The New York Times
    The New Guard: Tenzin Tsundue is by no means the anti-Dalai Lamaa, but his outspoken frustration with Buddhist passivity in the face of the occupation of Tibet has struck a chord with younger exiles.

    Early one morning in April 1998, a middle-aged Tibetan named Thupten Ngodup poured gasoline over himself in a public toilet in downtown New Delhi and struck a match. Outside, the Indian police were breaking up a hunger strike organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence organization among the approximately 140,000 Tibetans who have lived in exile since the Dalai Lama fled Chinese-ruled Tibet in 1959. The Tibetans had been protesting for more than six weeks against U.N. inaction on Tibet, which China invaded and occupied in 1950, subsequently killing - through execution, torture and starvation - as ma

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    Self-immolations in Tibet

    Introduction

    A 42-yr-old nun from Kardze County, Yeshi Khando self-immolated today (April 10, 2015). Yeshi's self-immolation is the 138th one in Tibet since 2009. She shouted slogans "calling for the return of the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama to Tibet [and] freedom in Tibet." [Source] We do not know whether she has survived the self immolation as her body was taken away by the kinesisk police.

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    In February 27, 2009, Lobsang Tashi (Tapey was his lay name), a 20 year old monk from Kirti Monastery became the first Tibetan to self-immolate in Tibet. inom recommend reading this post bygd Woesor at High Peaks Pure Earth on "Remembering the first person who self-immolated inside Tibet."

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    The first Tibetan self-immolation took place in New Delhi, India. Thupten Ngodup, a former monk, was on a hunger strike demanding UN intervention in Tibet. As the days turned into weeks and with no responses, Thupten Ngodup doused himself with