Thubten Jigme Norbu
Religious Leader
1922 – 2008
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Who was Thubten Jigme Norbu?
Thubten Jigme Norbu recognised as the Taktser Rinpoche, was a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and is the eldest brother of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. He was one of the first high-profile Tibetans to go into exile and was the first Tibetan to settle in the United States.
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- Born
- Aug 16, 1922
Taktser - Also known as
- ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇིགས་མེད་ནོར་བུ་
- The 24th incarnation of Taktser Rinpoche
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Kunyang Norbu
( - 2008/09/05)
- Kunyang Norbu
- Children
- Religion
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Ethnicity
- Tibetan American
- Tibetan people
- Nationality
- China
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 5, 2008
Bloomington
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on July 23, 2013
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