Lobsang Sangay

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Lobsang Sangay, Vienna 2012.

Lobsang Sangay ( Tibetan བློ་ བཟང་ སེང་གེ་ Wylie blo bzang seng ge ; * 1968 in Darjeeling , West Bengal , India ) is a lawyer , international lawyer and politician.

He worked at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts until he was elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan government- in- exile in late April 2011 to succeed Lobsang Tendzin . Since then he has referred to Dharamsala as the center of his life.

Life

Sangay grew up in a Tibetan settlement in India and attended the Central School for Tibetans in Sonada and Darjeeling . He earned his BA (Honors) in English Literature and an LLB from Delhi University . In 1992 he was elected the youngest board member of the Tibetan Youth Congress (CENTREX), a group that the State Council of the People's Republic of China called a " terrorist organization " in the wake of the 2008 Tibetan unrest .

As a Fulbright scholar, he obtained a master's degree in law from Harvard Law School in 1996 and a doctorate in 2004 . He was the first Tibetan to receive this title and his dissertation Democracy and History of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile from 1959-2004 (" Democracy and History of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile from 1959 to 2004") was awarded the Yong K. Kim '95 Prize of the East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) program awarded at HLS. In 2005 he was granted a waiver by the United States Department of Education to continue his academic work in the United States.

In 2007 he was elected by the Asia Society as one of the Young Leaders of Asia and as a delegate to the World Justice Forum in Vienna ( Austria ), which brings together top lawyers and judges from all over the world.

In 2008, he testified as an expert before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs , along with John Negroponte , then Vice Secretary of State of the United States .

Lobsang Sangay is married and has one child. In Tibet itself he has not yet been. Sangay speaks Tibetan , English , Hindi , Nepali, as well as some Tshangla (in the Pemakö dialect) and Chinese .

Political career

After the Dalai Lama announced his intention to withdraw from his political duties, Lobsang Sangay was considered a promising candidate for the office of head of government of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala (India).

Before the April 2011 election, Lobsang Sangay presented himself as an expert on international law, democratic constitutionalism and conflict resolution. He pointed out that, among other things, he had organized two meetings between the Dalai Lama and Chinese scholars in 2003 and 2009 at Harvard University . According to the election commission, he was elected as the new Prime Minister with 55 percent of the vote. On August 8, 2011, Lobsang Sangay was officially inaugurated in the presence of the Dalai Lama. Sangay was re-elected for a second term in 2016.

Videos

Fonts (selection)

  • Lobsang Sangay: Human rights and Buddhism: cultural relativism, individualism & universalism . Harvard Law School, 1996.
  • Lobsang Sangay: Tibet: Exiles' Journey . In: Journal of Democracy . tape 14 , no. 3 , 2003, p. 119-130 .
  • Lobsang Sangay: Democracy in distress: is exile polity a remedy ?: a case study of Tibet's government in exile . Harvard Law School, June 2004.

Web links

Commons : Lobsang Sangay  - collection of images

Further

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Mu Xuequan: China publishes evidences of Dalai clique's masterminding of riots Xinhua - accessed April 26, 2011;
    Tibetologists consider "Tibetan Youth Congress" a terrorist pro-independence spearhead China Daily - accessed April 26, 2011;
    "Tibetan Youth Congress" is a pure terrorist organization ( Memento from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Xinhua - accessed on April 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ According to tibet.org.tw - accessed on April 26, 2011 - not only from six million Tibetans , but from the Himalayan region, including Bhutan , Nepal and Mongolia .
  3. ↑ cf. news.harvard.edu ( Memento of September 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) or blogs.law.harvard.edu : The award is given to the author with the best writing on legal history or the history of justice of the nations and peoples of East Asia or legal issues relating to relations excellent between the US and East Asia.
  4. ↑ cf. William P. Alford (en.wikipedia)
  5. ↑ cf. asiasociety.org
  6. ↑ Terrorist poised to rule "Tibetan government in-exile"? english.peopledaily.com.cn; Retrieved April 26, 2011
  7. ↑ Dr. Lobsang Sangay. ( Memento of October 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) kalontripafortibet.org; Retrieved April 26, 2011
  8. ↑ kalontripa.org: Dr. Lobsang Sangay - Candidate - Candidate Presentation (Kalön Thripa) - accessed on April 26, 2011 - According to this candidate presentation, he regularly visits Dharamsala and interacts with Tibetan government officials at all levels, gave numerous lectures, held workshops in and around Dharamsala, visited many of the Tibetan refugee settlements, Monasteries and schools in India and coordinates a Tibetan Nutritional Project that helps dozens of schools in India.
  9. ↑ cf. New political head of the Tibetans in exile - A Harvard professor as a bearer of hope ( memento from April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, April 27, 2011 (accessed on April 27, 2011).
  10. ^ New head of the Tibetan government in exile sworn in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 8, 2011
  11. ↑ Central Tibetan Administration Tibetan Government-in-Exile (accessed June 10, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Lobsang Sangay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian lawyer and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Darjeeling , West Bengal, India