Lobsang Tendzin

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Lobsang Tendzin

The 5th Samdong Rinpoche Lobsang Tendzin ( Tib . : zam gdong rin po che blo bzang bstan 'dzin ; * November 5, 1939 in Dechen (formerly: Jol or Atunzu), Eastern Tibet or Yunnan) was the Prime Minister from 2001 to 2011 (Kalön Thripa) of the Tibetan government in exile in the Indian Dharmshala .

biography

At the age of five, Lobsang Tendzin was recognized as the reincarnation of the 4th Samdong Rinpoche . After training in Lhasa , he fled into exile in 1959 after the Chinese siege of Tibet. From 1961 he was a religious teacher in the Tibetan school in Shimla , from 1963 he headed the school. In 1964 he worked as a religious teacher at the Darjeeling Tibetan School and between 1965 and 1970 he ran a Tibetan school in Dalhousie .

Lobsang Tendzin was also director of the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Varanasi, which was founded in 1967 and recognized as a university in 1988 .

In 1990 he was a member of the drafting committee for the constitution of the future Tibetan state organization and the law for exiled Tibetans. In 1991 he was appointed a member of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile by the 14th Dalai Lama , Tendzin Gyatsho , and was later unanimously elected chairman. He remained a member of parliament until 1995. Between 1996 and 2001 Lobsang Tendzin was also an elected member and chairman of the parliament that represented Kham Province .

Lobsang Tendzin was elected Prime Minister of the government-in-exile, which had existed since 1960, in a worldwide election on September 5, 2001 by Tibetan voters with voting rights.

He advocates nonviolence in the conflict with China.

literature

  • Samdhong Rinpoche: Uncompromising Truth for a Compromised World: Tibetan Buddhism and Today's World . World Wisdom Books, 2006, ISBN 1-933316-20-9

Web links

Commons : Samdhong Rinpoche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS) (English) ( Memento from March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Tibet.com: Profile of the Tibetan Ministers ( Memento of June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Snow Lion Publications Newsletter (English)
  4. ↑ Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche: Satyagraha
personal data
SURNAME Lobsang Tendzin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 5. Samdhong Rinpoche; Samdong Rinpoche; zam gdong rin po che blo bzang bstan 'dzin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tibetan politician, Prime Minister (Kalön Thripa) of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharmshala, India
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Jol, Eastern Tibet